DigitalME
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The issue you are facing is known as the "16-Kilobyte Curtain." It isn't a bug or a standard technical error; it is a deliberate, state-level "traffic shaping" campaign by Russian authorities.
Anyone worked out a fix for this? I thought maybe pushing them to Tapatalk would be a fix, as they would go through their systems, any cloudflare stuff which is over 16kb is being blocked currently by the majority of our Russian users, they're too old to be pushed to a VPN
What happened and When?
- The Start: The systematic throttling began on June 9, 2025, and intensified through June 15, 2025.
- The Cause: The Russian internet regulator, Roskomnadzor, directed major ISPs (Rostelecom, MTS, Megafon, Beeline) to target Western infrastructure.
- The Target: Specifically Cloudflare, but also other providers like Hetzner, DigitalOcean, and OVH. The goal is to force Russian site owners to move to domestic, state-controlled hosting and to break VPN/circumvention tools that use Cloudflare’s "tunnels."
Anyone worked out a fix for this? I thought maybe pushing them to Tapatalk would be a fix, as they would go through their systems, any cloudflare stuff which is over 16kb is being blocked currently by the majority of our Russian users, they're too old to be pushed to a VPN
