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I doubt the system is that simple. No one wrote a rule saying `if url.contains("camel") then block()` it's probably an unintended side-effect



If this is a bet, I'll happily take the other side and give you 4:1 on it.


Me too.


Akamai has been doing precisely that for years & years...


I think you can include advertising/privacy block lists in that vein too, although that allows for the users to locally-correct any issues.


Judging by previous outages it was probably a poorly tested overcomplicated regex which matched to much.




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