Getting blocked by Cloudflare
Sep 21, 2025 | 12:37 am
#2
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Are you able to assign a static IP to your access? Sometimes it's possible to whitelist one. If not, then obviously Cloudflare perceives this as potentially a spammer trying to access the site and blocks it, which isn't necessarily something within Internet Brands' control.
Sep 22, 2025 | 1:45 am
#3
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If you're using the VM without assigning it's own public IP or other dedicated public IP via a NAT gateway or Azure Firewall, then the source IPs you pick up in Azure from the default internet access that is provided are well used and abused by others. Their reputation is better than the source IPs used by a consumer VPN but not much better. Microsoft are not in a hurry to fix the reputation of the default internet access IPs as they would prefer to rent you your own dedicated public IP.
Sep 22, 2025 | 2:12 am
#4
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Are you able to assign a static IP to your access? Sometimes it's possible to whitelist one. If not, then obviously Cloudflare perceives this as potentially a spammer trying to access the site and blocks it, which isn't necessarily something within Internet Brands' control.
Sep 22, 2025 | 9:49 am
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Mar 10, 2026 | 10:07 am
#6
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Greeetings from Sri Lanka. It seems that unless I use my own VPN which presents my traffic as coming from my home in the US, I see this:
untries. FlyerTalk is for people who travel. It's a shame that it seems to be blocked here (and other places). ...
Sorry, you have been blocked
You are unable to access flyertalk.com
I'm just in a hotel, but the same thing happened during my last trip here and I was in a different hotel. I've run into this before in other cuntries. FlyerTalk is for people who travel. It's a shame that it seems to be blocked here (and other places). ...
Mar 10, 2026 | 4:41 pm
#7
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I don't recall where in Southeast Asia, however, in January and February, I was unable to access FlyerTalk while connected to several hotels WiFi, however, there was no problem connecting when I used cellular data.
Mar 11, 2026 | 8:41 am
#8
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n't recall where.
Mar 29, 2026 | 6:09 pm
#10
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Cloudflare now seems to be blocking the largest ISP in Hong Kong (if not the whole territory). I'm connecting from home on my HKT/Netvigator FTTH with standard dynamic IP.
Is this likely to persist? It's rather annoying to have to bring up a VPN to view the site.
Is this likely to persist? It's rather annoying to have to bring up a VPN to view the site.
Mar 29, 2026 | 6:55 pm
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Last edited by percysmith; Mar 29, 2026 at 10:38 pm
