You can now use X in Brazil without a VPN — for now
The social media platform is still banned, but Brazilians can access it without using a VPN.
Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) hasn't been x'ed completely in Brazil, despite being banned in the country in late August, according to reports.
Brazilians have reportedly been able to access X without a VPN, with some reports even stating the number of X posts made in Brazil skyrocketed from 939,000 on Tuesday to more than two million by Wednesday afternoon.
That's because X updated the way users in Brazil accessed its servers. Formerly, users could access the platform using the company's server to access its IP address. Now, it changed to Cloudflare as its network provider and uses a dynamic IP address rather than a static one.
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This means X's IP address is constantly switching, making it hard to block the platform in the country. And, if Brazil decides to block access to all Cloudflare servers, experts say this would severely affect the country as many of its government and financial institutions use the service.
In other words, blocking X could mean blocking essential services too. But, experts suggest that the platform could still be blocked if Cloudflare were to work with the Brazilian government.
X claims this was done because the shutdown in Brazil affected service to Latin America as a whole. So the switch was done to keep the platform running smoothly for other users in the continent. The company also claims that Brazilians being able to join was unplanned but they expect the platform to be inaccessible again shortly.
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