Shadow-Ban on Jari Hiltunenhttps://hiltsu.codeberg.page/en/tags/shadow-ban/Recent content in Shadow-Ban on Jari HiltunenHugo -- gohugo.ioenWed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000Going dark across the platform stack: a field report on what reputation systems actually dohttps://hiltsu.codeberg.page/en/posts/going-dark-platform-stack/Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hiltsu.codeberg.page/en/posts/going-dark-platform-stack/A small disappearance A while back I noticed that a number of things had quietly stopped working. My YouTube channel went silent — uploads were technically there, but views and comments dried up to a degree that wasn’t normal variance. Posts on LinkedIn that linked to my own articles got vanishingly little reach, sometimes none at all. On Thingiverse, several routine actions started bouncing off a Cloudflare challenge page that no amount of patience or different browsers could clear.