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Site blocks VPN users.
Many of us only like legitimate users, and therefore block VPNs.
Unfortunately true. I wrote about it early last year here: https://blog.xkeeper.net/uncategorized/tcrf-has-been-getting...

The story has not changed much. Every so often I will remove most of the blocks put in place, and within a few hours I'm back to having to block them. Many of the cheaper VPNs are also hosted on AWS / Google Cloud / Azure (or other cloud providers), which are also unilaterally blocked.

I would much prefer we did not have to do this, but it is what it is.

Access seems pretty strict

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403 Forbidden

You are unable to access this site.

Sorry, you are not allowed to access tcrf.net right now.

If you are using a VPN, try disabling it first. We block many VPNs because of abuse.

If that does not work, the block may be due to one of the following reasons:

You are connecting using a network we have blocked. Your connection is still using a VPN or proxy (incl. Apple Private Wi-Fi, CloudFlare relays, etc.) You are a badly-behaving or unwelcome bot (ChatGPT, bingbot, yandex, etc.) You are using a badly-behaving extension (eg. Imagus, etc) that is trying to load every single version of a file in the background If you were able to view pages before, and this error message has suddenly appeared in place of what you were expecting, make sure you are not running any extensions or tools that are attempting to download everything at once. It is possible you were manually blocked, and it might be removed soon. If not, well, sorry.

If this page always apppeared, there is likely not a lot you can do. If you are using a VPN, turn off your VPN and try again.

Sorry for the trouble. We have been under a long-running DDoS attack.

30 out of 34 comments are about the content blocking.

Only four comments are about the content of the article, and none of them really go into depth.

This has been at the top of HN all day. If people can't see it, what gives?

Blocking Apple iCloud privacy is pretty extreme.
Does anyone know where can I find contents for the 2020 gigaleak?
I remember this being shown in Nintendo Power. As the kind of kid who liked computers and gadgets I really wanted one, and read the article many times.

But of course it never came out.

Applaud the preservation.
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