Redirect Russia

I appreciate wanting to support Ukraine.

But the current trend of private companies just stopping service in Russia really targets ordinary Russians and just increases their paranoia.

Currently the ordinary Russian can't read anything from the outside or from independent sources, can't leave, can't get or send shipments, etc.

Imagine being traumatized by decades of Soviet repression and isolation... and then having all that come back in a week.

Driving ordinary Russians back into a fatalistic, nationalistic hole can only make things worse in Russia. It might also run counter to governments trying to tailor sanctions to target decision-makers.

If you do stop your service, at least explain that you love Russian people, but the government is waging war and concealing what it is doing, and you are trying to bring peace.

I would not support this. I would suggest some specific banner or something. This Iron Curtain we are raising can't be a good thing in either the short or long term.

Are we now going to post malicious links on hn?

Yeah, as if Putin or his army would take advantage my personal blog/website to attack Ukraine.

Stuff like this does not help Ukrainians at all, it just discriminates people who live in Russia of which most are not bad people.

this is what the page claims to do:

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view-source:https://redirectrussia.org/ ==================================================

<h2>How it works</h2>

<img alt="Screenshot of redirect page" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2841780/156524271-..." class="screenshot">

<p> When someone from Russia visits your website, they'll be redirected to a page that looks

<a href="https://redirectrussia.org/?from=example.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">

like this</a>. </p>

<p> They can find information about how they can help Ukraine and make change from within Russia. </p>

<p> The script is asynchronous, meaning that it shouldn't affect the page load time, and it uses a combination of timezone and IP address geolocation to identify traffic from Russia, so we don't make too many IP geolocation API requests. </p>

<h2>API</h2>

<p> You can configure the redirect URL, location detection method, IP geolocation API, and whether or not to add your domain to the redirect URL using the configuration generator above. </p>

<p> We also emit an event <code>redirect-russia</code> which you can listen to, for example to set up analytics: </p>

<pre> <code>document.addEventListener("redirect-russia", (event) => { /* */ }) </code> </pre>

<p> The code is open source and available on <a href="https://github.com/pabio/redirect-russia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">GitHub </a>. </p> ===================================================

So, hacker wannabes now support censorship! Wow!