In the UK? Being told you’re already downloading or have failed the CAPTCHA too many times by file hosting sites for no reason? You might be being IWF’d.
grimboy.co.uk/blawg/?p=26Posted Apr 16, 2011, 10:43 PM UTC
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Posted Apr 16, 2011, 10:43 PM UTC
This is nothing new, this issue has been around for a good couple of years I'd say.
We still get people coming in complaining about it in the Be Broadband IRC support channel that I run. Why ISPs are still using it I just don't know.
I'm quite aware it's nothing new for many. I probably only started noticing it recently due to Talk Talk signing up with the IWF some time in the last six months. Also I noticed there was a lack of articles about exactly what was going on. I think many people just assume it's a problem with the services and move on. I may be being stupid here, but I can't help but think this could be avoided if their proxies were to spoof the source IP since it's not like they need to do anything with the response anyway, and if you're an ISP you can do that kind of thing.
Or just scrap the IWF completely, since it's a redundant concept.
Fucking quango's.