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I tried 2 different IP addresses from Brazil and they got blocked.

I tried an IP address from the USA and another from Canada, and both worked correctly.

The message you get when you're blocked is:

  Sorry, you have been blocked
  You are unable to access dillan.org
  Performance & security by Cloudflare

  Why have I been blocked?
  This website is using a security service
  to protect itself from online attacks.
  The action you just performed triggered
  the security solution. There are several
  actions that could trigger this block
  including submitting a certain word or
  phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.
which is false since I wasn't doing any of the things they list.

I wonder why they think that Brazil and other countries shouldn't be reading this site? Is the owner of the site able to geo-target which countries he wants his site to be shown in via Cloudflare?




Blocking countries seems to be possible. No idea why do that on a personal blog, maybe a DDoS?




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