I’ll be self-hosting a service with user submissions soon, so I’m worried about the https://howto.geoblockthe.uk/ situation.

Based on this I’ve wondered, are there any community maintained geo block lists that might be useful? All database options I found are either 1. an on-demand online service which seems questionable for privacy reasons, or 2. IPv4 only, or 3. have weird terms of use with a gag clause regarding the entire company making it and other weird stuff.

I’m not a fan of geo blocking in general, but the situation is what it is. And it seems like it might be helpful for the UK as well to deal with it that way, although I don’t want to claim I deeply understand the situation…

PS: Please don’t discuss the Online Safety Act itself in the comments, or whether somebody should be using a geo ip to handle this. I am hoping this post can remain a resource for those who are looking for such a database for other reasons as well.