Is there a plan to fix "LaLiga" blocking in Spain?
Or at least allow Business and not only Enterprise to bring its own IP? Maybe charge an extra dollars for it. But the current situation is bad, my whole company is rethinking cloudflare entirely. I know its not a Cloudflare problem, but a solution should be proposed or being worked on. We can't be like this forever.
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I have a proposal, can you tell me if it makes sense? I can have Cloduflare Worker script with a FLAG LALIGA_BLOCKING = true
If this is true, redirect users to es.domain.com which will be a server VPS in Germany.
My question regarding this workaround is that if the Cloudflare Worker script will even run, or will be blocked.
I guess it will be blocked and I will have to do a GeoDNS in Route53 or whatever
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La Liga (Spanish Football league) is blocking many of Cloudflare's IP ranges in Spain due to allegations of football piracy.
As of March 31st, Cloudflare is suing over this indiscriminate blocking. We recommend telling your local government official how this is impacting you.
This blocking impacts a subset of customers. Upgrading your zone plan may resolve the issue, but that is not a guarantee.
If you're an Enterprise customer, you can use Cloudflare BYOIP to use your own IP address and avoid any blocks against Cloudflare CDN IPs.
Cloudflare's reaction was to sue
there's not much they can do with IP addresses that wont just result in further damage, since the very idea of blocking IP addresses is flawed to begin with
BYOIP is an expensive Enterprise addon because it costs a lot to setup and maintain
My question regarding this workaround is that if the Cloudflare Worker script will even run, or will be blocked. I guess it will be blocked and I will have to do a GeoDNS in Route53 or whateverthe Worker won't run since theyre blocking IP addresses, you need to handle this on the DNS level and avoid serving blocked IPs to Spanish visitors if you setup a partial/CNAME zone and use GeoDNS you can serve a different IP to Spain users you could possibly also do something with Cloudflare's Load Balancing product
I get it, its not Cloudflare fault, but also not mine. Cloudflare should make things easier for business in Spain, They can't ask 40k for enterprise or have your website bloqued every weekend.
Anyway, thanks
I'm searching for any workaround, too.
My domain is for educational proposals, non-profit (and I, personally, hate football. Now, more than ever). It's in Catalan, so almost all final users of the educational materials are affected. As non-profit, I don't have any budget for expensive solutions, and I could only suggest them to try a VNP or proxy from a different country.
I don't even find any free website monitor service that only checks form Spain, to keep a good track of the censorship.
Is there any upcoming solution from Cloudflare? is there any way to have BYOIP in a paid plan (no Enterprise one)?
News say they started to experiment with little interruptions, so normal users just feel it takes long to load, while it keeps impossible to use it to stream... But it's still censoring random worldwide websites with no real reason.
I wonder now CF is going to make every feature available to everyone, if it'd be possible to get/buy a static IP and overcome this blocking..
I ended up upgrading to Enterprise. Its a shame and an extorsion...