A Hacker News user reports their website was blocked by Orange's security filters due to being listed on UCEPROTECT Level 3. The listing stems from their IP's association with ASN 14061 (DigitalOcean, US), meaning innocent sites hosted on major providers like DigitalOcean are blacklisted regardless of their own reputation. UCEPROTECT offers whitelisting for approximately $30/month or $108/year, a practice the author describes as extortion.
They note that other major hosting providers' ASNs are similarly listed, putting many sites at risk of losing mobile network traffic, particularly from Orange, which uses such blacklists for cybersecurity filtering. In their 20-year career, the author states this is the first time they've seen a blacklist demand payment for clearly unwarranted listings.
Source: Hacker News · Summarized by HeadlinesBriefing