Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year

https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/ru?dateRange=52w

44•secondary_op•2h ago

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loopback_device•1h ago

> Traffic shifts seen in some networks/locations due to phased integration of new IP geolocation provider

There's an event marker with a possible reason for it - which does make one wonder how bad the accuracy of the geolocation data is/was

neurotixz•53m ago

Likely reason: https://blog.cloudflare.com/russian-internet-users-are-unabl...

In a nutshell:

Since June 9, 2025, Internet users located in Russia and connecting to web services protected by Cloudflare have been throttled by Russian Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

user3939382•46m ago

Great. Not stoked about a single corporation deciding who gets to access vast swaths of the Internet. If we could get Cloudflare usage down in general it would be better for everyone.

blitzar•40m ago

I suspect it has as much to do with the government of russia blocking and banning vast swaths of the internet not cloudflare randomly blocking 40% of russian traffic.

pavlov•38m ago

"Government censorship of websites is good because it reduces Cloudflare usage."

What a take... Only on HN.

user3939382•34m ago

Yeah corporate censorship where your constitutional rights don’t apply is so much better.

ceejayoz•31m ago

But this isn't corporate censorship.

This is Russian government censorship. Where "constitutional rights" don't really apply, either. And probably quite a bit less sueable than Cloudflare.

conception•8m ago

Correct. As there is nothing stopping the electorate from passing laws and electing officials to change anything about how Cloudflare works.

Of course they may not, but the option is there unlike autocratic government censorship.

cataphract•4m ago

You can celebrate the outcome even if you disagree with the means or the motivations.

mrweasel•33m ago

That's Roskomnadzor doing this, not Cloudflare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roskomnadzor

egorfine•24m ago

Can we conclude that this means the Great Firewall of russia is working and ~60% of population does not care?

jonwinstanley•20m ago

What leads you to think they don’t care?

tokai•10m ago

If you talk or write with Russians, its quite clear that they don't care. A majority of them are not following any kind of news, and the ones that are follow pro government stuff. Even though telegram was banned, the majority of all Russian channels are pro-government.[0]

[0] https://cedarus.io/research/what-do-russians-read

an_ko•1m ago

I always doubt statistics based on self-reporting, when there are such strong incentives not to be caught supporting the opposition. If you say the wrong thing, you may get prison, or very accidentally trip and tragically fall out of a window.

thinkingtoilet•1m ago

It's hard to get accurate numbers when there can be very real consequences for saying you do care about these things. I'm not saying I know one way or the other, just that it's hard to know what people really think in a situation like this.

ivan_gammel•16m ago

Well, they are concerned, however citizens of authoritarian states have no agency in decision-making. It works to the extent where mobile internet is mostly not working in places like Moscow (traffic to a few white-listed sites is allowed). A lot of services based on mobile connectivity are nearly impossible there for this reason (and geolocation has 4-digits before decimal point precision in km).

tananaev•12m ago

Russia has been slowly cracking down on popular communication and media platforms. First they slow down connection to unusable speeds. This happened to YouTube at some point last year. At first they even said that it's something wrong with Google and it's not them. I think the intention is to slowly get people off the platform without completely blocking it. Then eventually they block access completely. Same happened to messaging apps, like WhatsApp and Telegram. Telegram is still working for messaging, but not calls. It's kind of funny because Telegram is used by Russian military to coordinate a lot of things, so they complain a lot about the block.

_fat_santa•2m ago

I have family in Russia and it's a sad state of affairs. Our ability to communicate with them is slowly degrading to the point where now I am looking into self-hosted communications.

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