Well apparently asia is the source of a lot of scraping traffic, and they’re an European focused website, so they went with the nuclear option of blocking the entire continent and change. Never mind that as one of the bigger instances on the Threadiverse, they’re degrading the user experience for an entire continent. I brought the issue up to them previously, but they didn’t seem too concerned about it.
Example of degraded user experience for Asia:
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far_university1990@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Why they geoblock? Wtf
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Well apparently asia is the source of a lot of scraping traffic, and they’re an European focused website, so they went with the nuclear option of blocking the entire continent and change. Never mind that as one of the bigger instances on the Threadiverse, they’re degrading the user experience for an entire continent. I brought the issue up to them previously, but they didn’t seem too concerned about it.
Example of degraded user experience for Asia: Image
far_university1990@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I in europe and also blocked. Was home instance, not anymore.
Zoot@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Welcome to the underside!