alt Hacker NewsYou're not the only one getting blocked. I emailed dreamwidth about this in the past and they say it's something their upstream network host does and they cannot even fix it if their site users wanted to fix it. They're a somewhat limited and broken host partially repackaging some other company's services.
>Dreamwidth Studios Support: I'm sorry about the frustrations you're having. The "semi-randomly selected to solve a CAPTCHA" interstitial with a visual CAPTCHA is coming from our hosting provider, not from us: ... and we don't have any control over whether or not someone from a particular network is shown a CAPTCHA or not because we aren't the ones who control the restriction.
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gregorvand • 06/17/2025
It works just using a VPN and picking a US server. The internet is becoming one giant reverse firewall.
This needs to be a catchy name, but I don't have a good one. CloudFlaritis? CloudFlareup? (CloudFlareDown?)
Regardless of whether Cloudflare is the particular infra company, the company who uses them responds to blocked people: "We don't know why some users can't access our Web site, and we don't even know the percentage of users who get blocked, but we're just cargo-culting our jobs here, so sux2bu."
The outsourced infra company's response is: "We're running a business here, and our current solution works well enough for that purpose, so sux2bu."