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It seems that Cloudflare has decided to rewrite the internet rules.
Cloudflare has activated the Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) feature for all users of free data plans, including many pirate sites. This new privacy feature makes it impossible for Internet service providers to track the sites visited by subscribers. As a result, it also makes attempts to block pirated sites useless if both the site and the user have activated ECH.
Blocking web resources has become a key tool for the entertainment industry in the fight against piracy. This approach has been used for more than 15 years and covers more than forty countries around the world. Often, Internet service providers are responsible for blocking, acting on the basis of court decisions.
Cloudflare recently activated support for ECH, an advanced privacy technology designed to prevent web traffic monitoring. This means that blocking sites performed by Internet service providers will become useless in most cases. ECH, which has been developed for several years, has already proven itself and received support from leading browsers such as Chrome, Firefox and Edge.
The main obstacle to widespread adoption of ECH is that sites must also support this technology. Cloudflare has taken a big step forward by activating it by default on all free pricing plans that serve millions of sites.
However, the improvement of online privacy did not pass by the attention of the owners of pirated resources. So, the creators of the Spanish torrent site DonTorrent, faced with the blocking of many of their domains, recommend that their users use the features of ECH.
Cloudflare and a number of other tech giants did not develop ECH in order to make blocking sites ineffective. However, copyright holders may be looking at this privacy move with caution, given their previously expressed complaints against Cloudflare for hiding servers of pirated resources.
At the moment, Cloudflare doesn't mention blocking at all. Instead, the company is just happy to make the internet more private and secure for everyone.
Cloudflare has activated the Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) feature for all users of free data plans, including many pirate sites. This new privacy feature makes it impossible for Internet service providers to track the sites visited by subscribers. As a result, it also makes attempts to block pirated sites useless if both the site and the user have activated ECH.
Blocking web resources has become a key tool for the entertainment industry in the fight against piracy. This approach has been used for more than 15 years and covers more than forty countries around the world. Often, Internet service providers are responsible for blocking, acting on the basis of court decisions.
Cloudflare recently activated support for ECH, an advanced privacy technology designed to prevent web traffic monitoring. This means that blocking sites performed by Internet service providers will become useless in most cases. ECH, which has been developed for several years, has already proven itself and received support from leading browsers such as Chrome, Firefox and Edge.
The main obstacle to widespread adoption of ECH is that sites must also support this technology. Cloudflare has taken a big step forward by activating it by default on all free pricing plans that serve millions of sites.
However, the improvement of online privacy did not pass by the attention of the owners of pirated resources. So, the creators of the Spanish torrent site DonTorrent, faced with the blocking of many of their domains, recommend that their users use the features of ECH.
Cloudflare and a number of other tech giants did not develop ECH in order to make blocking sites ineffective. However, copyright holders may be looking at this privacy move with caution, given their previously expressed complaints against Cloudflare for hiding servers of pirated resources.
At the moment, Cloudflare doesn't mention blocking at all. Instead, the company is just happy to make the internet more private and secure for everyone.
