Cloudflare IP is blocked in Spain

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Óscar Miguéns Moares complained on the Gramps for Genealogists (and also posted to Usuarios de Gramps en castellano) Facebook pages says that the IP address hosting the Gramps project is blocked in Spain. The blocking is due to measures taken by LaLiga (Spain’s professional football league) to block internet access linked to illegal streaming of football matches.

This block, part of LaLiga’s anti-piracy efforts, affects many IP addresses used by legitimate sites (including Gramps) because these IPs are shared by Cloudflare’s content delivery network.

He sarcastically suggests that Gramps is being unfairly targeted as if it violated the rights of ancestors, highlighting frustration over overbroad blocking that cuts off legal websites due to LaLiga’s enforcement actions and related court orders in Spain.

The complaint references a website checking IP blocks, showing the impact of the blockage in Spain:
https://hayahora.futbol/#comprobador&domain=188.114.96.5

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Thanks I’ll see what I can do.

Update, reported to Cloudflare and asked if they could separate the streaming IP address from legitimate traffic!

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Thanks. I’ve cross-posted your response to Facebook. (Also asked which services are blocked: the wiki, Discourse, MantisBT, and/or GitHub repository serving the new 6.0.6 release.)

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Gramps v6.0.6 is also available from SourceForge.

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