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The 16‑kilobyte curtain. How Russia’s new data‑capping censorship is throttling Cloudflare (zona.media)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A new form of state-level internet filtering that restricts data flow is disrupting access to large portions of the global web for Russian citizens. Cloudflare, the world leader in DDoS protection and high-traffic load management, is being targeted by these new data caps, which appear designed to push users toward Russian-controlled services. Meanwhile, the move leaves Russian businesses dangerously exposed.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Its an endless arms race. Next will be chunking vpns that chunk requests down to 16kb packets and reassemble on the other end. There is nothing stopping a custom protocol from working around this limitation, in a safe secure manner.

Just a matter of time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

You could probably do it with http if the server properly supports the content range headers.