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Comment by tambourine_man | Hacker News Reader

Ironically, Cloudflare is preventing me from reading the site:

  Sorry, you have been blocked
  You are unable to access rickconlee.com

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Out of curiosity do you know why Cloudflare has blocked you? Browser integrity check, IP reputation, etc? I'm trying to have more lax settings for my static website, and would love to make sure it's as accessible as possible.

Likely country blocks in this case, can't have the mean Europeans read the precious content. Works fine with a US VPN (bad IP reputation), doesn't work with my german local provider (good IP reputation).

Works fine from Norway, so probably not a country block. Site blocking EU usually block Norway as well.

Working in the UK too. Also works with a VPN via Portugal, France, Netherlands, and Denmark. Only got blocked when accessing via Brazil.

Same here. My German IP is blocked.

From my experience with Cloudflare, hard blocks are either caused by something that is similar to known exploits or by the site operator blocking countries/ip ranges. Everything else it's the annoying captcha or the less annoying "managed challenge" (usually a quick check before loading the page or a request to manually click a box).

For me it's just visiting the site from my phone with a very typical German network provider (o2). Just followed the hacker news link ...

I'm blocked on Firefox on Ubuntu 25.04, on a German residential FTTH line, and I'm also blocked with Firefox and Chrome on Android 15 over 5G.

No idea. Vanilla desktop and mobile Safari, cable and 5G, all blocked.

Cloudflare Ray ID: 98d7e0b319f3f390

I have also been blocked. We are probably in a country where the author has decided to block us on CloudFlare.

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