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So, it had to happen eventually...

Posted by JDYJohansson - 13 days ago


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As soon as Newgrounds started using Cloudflare and their CAPTCHA, Russian people can no longer enter the site without VPN or other services (that also get banned by government or another sanctions)


I asked @TomFulp if there's something we could help the Russian part of the community, and he said he'll check more about this situation, but in general... It sucks.


I am writing this because, well, as long as I host collabs (such as The Ultimate Newgrounds 30th Anniversary Art Collab) and publish my art here, I might disappear for uncertain period of time, if VPN services would not work at all. This leads to this, and I hope we'll fix something. I love Newgrounds, I love the community, and I don't want my people get restricted from such a good site.


Thank you for your support 💙


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Как только Newgrounds начал использовать Cloudflare и их CAPTCHA, россияне больше не могут зайти на сайт без VPN или других сервисов (которые также запрещены правительством или другими санкциями)


Я спросил Фулпа, есть ли что-то, чем мы могли бы помочь российской части сообщества, и он сказал, что посмотрит больше информации об этой ситуации, но в целом... Отстой.


Я пишу это, потому что, ну, пока я размещаю совместные проекты (например, The Ultimate Newgrounds 30th Anniversary Art Collab) и публикую здесь своё искусство, я могу исчезнуть на неопределённый период времени, если VPN сервисы вообще перестанут работать.


Всё привело к этому, и я надеюсь, что мы сможем что-нибудь исправить. Я люблю Newgrounds, я люблю это сообщество, и я не хочу, чтобы мои люди были ограничены в доступе к такому хорошему сайту.


Спасибо за поддержку 💙


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I hope this issue can get solved, newgrounds is indeed for everyone, and by that, it must include all the countries, pls stay safe my russian people, hope you can get ng back :'>

As far as I am aware, you are the first person pointing to CloudFlare as the source of the issue and I am willing to believe you _immediately_! CloudFlare blocks first and asks questions 'never'. As long as they block 'somebody' from entering a site, they consider it a "job well done".

Those folk never heard of 'quality control' or 'diligence'.

To quote people way more savvy than myself:
"CloudFlare's approach to blocking abusive traffic is incurring a large amount of false positives in the form of impeding normal traffic, thereby damaging the experience of many innocent Tor and non-Tor Internet users, as well as impacting the revenue streams of CloudFlare's own customers by causing frustrated or blocked users to go elsewhere."
- https://blog.torproject.org/trouble-cloudflare/

That article is from 2016, and CloudFlare hasn't changed their methodology one bit. (I'm not a fan of 'Akamai' either, btw...)

My _guess_ would be that the only reason that I haven't been affected so far would be my supporter status - but that is pure speculation on my part...