#geo-blocking on Hacker News

3 stories tagged geo-blocking, newest first.

Screenshot of blog.tymscar.com: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network

Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network (blog.tymscar.com)

471 points by tymscar 11 months ago | 161 comments

A blog post describing how the author set up a network-wide VPN proxy on NixOS and Docker to bypass Imgur's geo-block for UK users across their homelab.

imgur geo-blocking vpn nixos

Screenshot of gist.github.com: Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';(gist.github.com)

781 points by avestura 1 year ago | 613 comments

A GitHub Gist essay by an Iranian software engineer describing how sanctions led tech companies like Microsoft to delete his app and block his accounts.

sanctions iran geo-blocking microsoft

Screenshot of arstechnica.com: Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries (arstechnica.com)

329 points by LinuxBender 1 year ago | 232 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that open source developers face overwhelming AI crawler traffic, leading some to block entire countries to keep FOSS sites online.

ai-crawlers web-scraping foss-infrastructure bot-traffic

#geo-blocking on Hacker News

Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network(blog.tymscar.com)

Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';(gist.github.com)

Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries(arstechnica.com)

Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network (blog.tymscar.com)

Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries (arstechnica.com)