Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Admins and patrollers/Cookie block exception option for hard IP blocks/Proposal/en

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  • Problem: "When an IP address is blocked with the option to include logged-in users (e.g. hardblocked), the block includes a cookie block." Once a user hits this kind of block (e.g. using a VPN), they still get the block message for the blocked IP even if they turn off the VPN. This confuses good faith users who happen to accidentally hit open proxy blocks.
  • Proposed solution: Add an option to exempt a block from cookie blocks. This could be enabled by admins, stewards, and bots doing proxy blocking.
  • Who would benefit: Users who accidentally hit proxy blocks and turn off their proxies after noticing it.
  • More comments:
  • Phabricator tickets: phab:T306751
  • Proposer: MarioGom (talk) 15:40, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]