#7TV Unavailable in Spain due to a generalized block to Cloudflare and similar

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silk lotus
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I recently discovered why 7TV was down for me but not for others. Turns out, in Spain, major ISPs are blocking Cloudflare and others in an effort to crackdown on football piracy. See more about this here (compilation of news articles, mostly in spanish but just so you get an idea and that this is a real thing): https://community.cloudflare.com/t/laliga-movistar-ip-address-blocks/784448

This issue is pretty bad especially during the weekends where there's usually a lot of football throughout the day. I'm guessing 7TV uses CloudFlare, because as soon as I used a VPN it got fixed. This isn't a simple DNS ban (eg: blocking 1.1.1.1), as I was using Google's DNS anyway. I don't really know how you'd be able to solve this (and probably will go unsolved since a migration is probably required), but basically if you live in Spain, unless you use a VPN you won't be able to use 7TV.

sleek forum
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I don't get why they would block cloudflare, a lot of stuff uses it

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I don't think 7tv can do much about it

silk lotus
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I don't get it either, it's old stupid people making decisions on technology they don't understand

upper bobcat
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They're being silly again today, it seems they've found a way to avoid waking up the majority.

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I guess that's how the Internet is. If you don't wake up the vast majority, it doesn't matter how much you shout, no one will pay attention. The Spanish community of 7TV and other minor services will have to put up with it and swallow it when LaLiga presses the button as many times as it wants.

upper bobcat
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The only apparent solution is to use a VPN, it's the only one that works.

graceful escarp
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You can download cloudfare warp and it fixes it Okayge

upper bobcat