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You gotta love it when a site called "techfreedom" black holes Tor exit node IPs. I can only access this site through web proxies.

LinuxBender 3y ago
That is ironic. Here [1] is an alternate link. [1] - https://archive.is/20230504130057/https://techfreedom.org/earn-it-act-remains-a-threat-to-liberty-security-safety-of-children/ https://archive.is/20230504130057/https://techfreedom.org/ea...
- btdmaster 3y ago
  archive.is kind of has the same issue, so maybe the Web Archive is better. [2] [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20230504121420if_/https://techfreedom.org/earn-it-act-remains-a-threat-to-liberty-security-safety-of-children/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230504121420if_/https://techfr...
  - LinuxBender 3y ago
    Are they also blocking Tor?
    - btdmaster 3y ago
      They request a (JavaScript) captcha completion every time I've checked.
      - LinuxBender 3y ago
        Odd. I have never enabled Javascript for archive.is, especially since with it enabled they have some resource link to mail.ru and since I block .ru on my DNS it times out. The lack of requiring Javascript is the reason I use that site. I have both uBlock and NoScript blocking javascript.
stasmo 3y ago
Tor exit nodes are abused as tools for DDOS attacks. We had to block them too.
- isoos 3y ago
  To be fair, tor is a really crappy network to orchestrate a DDOS attack. On the other hand some sites just can't take much traffic, especially if it is a consistent inflow of requests. It may be that somebody just used tor as a proxy to crawl your website and it crumbled. I happen to speculate this because I may have used tor for web crawling, which may have caused a specific site to crash before I cut back the crawl rate. Punishing tor for such incident is mostly FUD.
Cthulhu_ 3y ago
Sounds like people abused the tech to the point they had to take action. This is one reason we can't have nice things.

LinuxBender 3y ago

That is ironic. Here [1] is an alternate link. [1] - https://archive.is/20230504130057/https://techfreedom.org/earn-it-act-remains-a-threat-to-liberty-security-safety-of-children/ https://archive.is/20230504130057/https://techfreedom.org/ea...

btdmaster 3y ago
archive.is kind of has the same issue, so maybe the Web Archive is better. [2] [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20230504121420if_/https://techfreedom.org/earn-it-act-remains-a-threat-to-liberty-security-safety-of-children/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230504121420if_/https://techfr...
- LinuxBender 3y ago
  Are they also blocking Tor?
  - btdmaster 3y ago
    They request a (JavaScript) captcha completion every time I've checked.
    - LinuxBender 3y ago
      Odd. I have never enabled Javascript for archive.is, especially since with it enabled they have some resource link to mail.ru and since I block .ru on my DNS it times out. The lack of requiring Javascript is the reason I use that site. I have both uBlock and NoScript blocking javascript.

stasmo 3y ago

Tor exit nodes are abused as tools for DDOS attacks. We had to block them too.

isoos 3y ago
To be fair, tor is a really crappy network to orchestrate a DDOS attack. On the other hand some sites just can't take much traffic, especially if it is a consistent inflow of requests. It may be that somebody just used tor as a proxy to crawl your website and it crumbled. I happen to speculate this because I may have used tor for web crawling, which may have caused a specific site to crash before I cut back the crawl rate. Punishing tor for such incident is mostly FUD.

Cthulhu_ 3y ago

Sounds like people abused the tech to the point they had to take action. This is one reason we can't have nice things.