The following countries are temporary being gated with captchas due to extremely aggressive bot traffic from compromised phones:

- United Kingdom
- Ireland
- France
- Germany
- New Zealand
- Australia
- Canada

So far the captcha solve rate from these countries has been abysmal (<0.05%). If you are in one of these countries, and getting too many captchas, send me a PM.


The following regions are temporary COMPLETELY BANNED from accessing the site. I will slowly roll some countries in here like Japan and South Korea into the gated with a captcha category and maybe eventually handled normally. But for now, in these areas, NO SOUP FOR YOU:

- Asia
- Africa
- South America
- Russia
- Russian occupied Ukraine
- Ukraine
- Iran
- Saudia Arabia
- UAE
- Belarus
- TOR

In the extremely unlikely event you're in one of the above areas and impacted, PM me.

Will be back in the Philippines by March. Hopefully open for business again by then :)

(11-08-2024 09:35 AM)Outsider Wrote:  Will be back in the Philippines by March. Hopefully open for business again by then :)

Where? We had two tours at Clark AB during the 70s. Love those people.

(11-08-2024 09:51 AM)wewererebels Wrote:  

(11-08-2024 09:35 AM)Outsider Wrote:  Will be back in the Philippines by March. Hopefully open for business again by then :)

Where? We had two tours at Clark AB during the 70s. Love those people.

My family lives in Cebu, so go every year, AWESOME people!!! Have been all over the Philippines: Luzon, Cebu, Samar, Mindanao

The following regions have been moved into the captcha gated group:
- South America
- Africa
- Turkey
- United Arab Emirates
- India
- Nepal
- Japan
- South Korea
- Singapore (for now to test, this had a TON of malicious traffic)
- Malaysia
- Taiwan
- Vietnam
- Philippines
- Thailand


Asia is still in the banned list, but that rule runs after the captcha gated rule. So if you're in any part of Asia not explicitly listed above, NO SOUP FOR YOU.

Man, the soup nazi returns...

Final update:

The bot bounce rate is terrific. Site load times are quite crisp. No countries are being captcha gated any longer.

If you are being blocking by country you are somewhere truly heinous (NK, Iran, Russia, China, Belarus, etc) where failure to use a VPN constitutes the icing to the cake of your bad judgement.

If you are being captcha gated once you are coming from a highly polluted enterprise network like DigitalOcean or Hetzner or OVH (what, you run your own VPN?). PM me for an exemption in the extremely unlikely case you're impacted.

If you are being captcha gated every single time you are likely coming from an enterprise network falsifying your traffic to try to hide the origin. I've only found one case of this from an extremely tin foil overkill enterprise network. I cannot give you an exemption if you fall into this bucket, your traffic looks even more suspicious than normal malicious traffic.

Enjoy our bot free future everyone.

Thank you much.