Fastly was recommended as a CDN alternative to Cloudflare for a user experiencing service blocks in Spain, with a commenter suggesting its non-free IP ranges are less likely to be affected.

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        "excerpt": "The blocks are court ordered IP ranges, they hit the hosting provider not the CDN brand. Bunyip or Fastly are less likely to be caught because theyre not free tier and the ranges arent shared with a million sites, but nothing is guaranteed during a match. Cheapest fix is a second origin on a Spanish host like Raiola or Hetzner Falkenstein with its own A record, then drop cloudflare to DNS only and",
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