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Since they added "Access denied" for misbehaving browsers, can they instead serve them some sort of bad response that will "surface" issue to the users? Depending on what would work better and cost less... (1) a small list that would block major legitimate sites. Whoops, the browser is unusable, now users complain to the developer to fix the issue, or abandon it. (2) "hang" the request if the browser loads the list synchronously; blocking UI thread is a hallmark of a bad developer, so they might (3) stream /dev/zero. Might be expensive; maybe serve a compressed zip-bomb if HTTP spec allows and/or browsers will process it?


Too much work. Just blackhole all requests originating from India in the firewall, as a start.


Right, block roughly 10% of the world. Great idea!




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