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> The good news is that the fix is very easy.

Is it just me, or is there a strong correlation between decisions that seem bureaucratic and politically motivated, and are completely ineffective at achieving their purpose (at least for the technical users)?

(I have the recent India vs. .xxx news in mind as well.)

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This issue has been resolved now as per internal sources :-). The functionality has been returned to previous state, regret any inconvinience

Unfortunately, a lot of users aren't very technical. That's why relatively inefficient blockages (Such as removing a site from the DNS record) are often used. They work for the majority and that is good enough.

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