For the first time, this also means that using a virtual private network (VPN) won’t bypass these restrictions, as long as the server is based in the UK.
So a VPN will help? lol.
Impossible. The only way around it would be to pretend to be in literally any other country than the UK, and no one would you lie in the Internet! /s
a VPN is almost never the right choice … so you can forgive their confusion in this case
This doesn’t make sense.
They say “endpoint in the UK” and “VPN Server in the UK”, and that they could not confirm whether outside the UK would still block.
Cloudflare blocks UK requests. If you use a VPN you choose which country you send the requests from.
Cloudflare as a separate entity from the VPN provider can’t know where requests originally came from. That’s the whole point of the VPN.
There is nothing new here. The article seems to misunderstand and to misrepresent.
Any VPN worth using would provide their own DNS service
Doesn’t seem to be a DNS block. I just set Mullvad to the UK and visited one of the pages. Mullvad does run their own dns. Still got cloudflare 451.
The error message reads like the website is using Cloudflare CDN, so Cloudflare’d be able to block any requests originating from the UK.
Cloudflare’s CDN is definitely used by a lot of torrent/piracy sites (e.g. 1337x, thepiratebay, Anna’s archive), so we’ll see what’ll come off this.
