LaLiga football streaming behind Cloudflare weekend outages as Spaniards turn to Proton VPN

• Proton VPN usage keeps soaring in Spain during the weekend
• The trend coincides with anti-piracy blocks impacting Cloudflare
• Proton VPN is now discounted by 75% for Black Friday

Cloudflare's IP blocking keeps ruining weekend internet use in Spain – and LaLiga football is to blame.

This comes as internet service providers (ISPs) are increasingly under pressure to block illegal streaming of televised football games, at the request of Spanish sports streaming giants, LaLiga and Telefónica. Local ISPs have been blocking domains hosting pirated sports streams since February.

Yet, the fight against illegal football streaming has also led to many false positives with incidents of legitimate domains becoming inaccessible – a frustrating trend that the leading CDN and DNS provider, Cloudflare, hopes to fix in Court.