App Lounge doesn't show privacy rating after being blocked by reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org

• /e/OS version: 2.8
• Device model(s): FP3
• Impacted Application: App Lounge

The problem

users see no privacy score when scrolling through App Lounge search results

Steps to reproduce

1. you need to scroll across many pages until you get no scores

Technical details

user reports of no scores being shown (and the website outside the applounge client not reachable, thus being blocked) are in these threads:

• https://community.e.foundation/t/app-lounge-exodus-report-isnt-working/65766
• https://community.e.foundation/t/app-lounge-does-not-show-privacy-score/65889

Feedback from exodus-privacy received by a user upon asking was:

your IP address has been ban because /e/OS “App Lounge” is DDOSing our infrastructure with lot of requests from a lot of smartphones without our permission.

Solutions?

run a exodus privacy instance or aggressive caching proxy