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Tell HN: Cloudflare Is Blocking Piped

 1 year ago
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Tell HN: Cloudflare Is Blocking Piped

Tell HN: Cloudflare Is Blocking Piped
38 points by assttoasstmgr 2 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
Lately I've been getting frequent "Error HTTP 451: Unavailable for Legal Reasons" thrown by Cloudflare whilst using Piped (a YouTube alternate front end used by Nitter).

However these errors are generated... in error. The page links to a DMCA complaint which lists about a half dozen unrelated YouTube (and Piped) links, none of which are being accessed when the error is generated. In fact, viewing the video on YouTube plays back fine. There appears to be a glitch in Cloudflare's URL filtering. It's been happening so frequently that Piped is often unusable.

Cloudflare is making my live very difficult right now. Spammers are hosting websites using free domains, like .ml, .tk, so an unlimited supply of random domains, hosting them behind cloud flare which prevents us from easily getting the page content or blocking the IP for a period of time since the IP is shared.

Lots of spam hosted on cloudflare these days.

I thought about submitting this a week or so ago. Here's the link to the issue and discussion on it: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/issues/1704

TL;DR: Apparently there's a Hong Kong dude living in Germany that didn't like his videos being on Youtube, so he sent DMCA takedown requests to Piped instead and Cloudflare did a takedown on the whole domain, which only appears if sent as a referral from outside piped.kavin.rocks (or using the redirect extension for firefox).

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