I live in iran, and i see this all the time
“This service is blocked because of the laws of USA! blah blah blah…”
almost never. good luck.
Yeah same, even though some sites would probably forbid me because of GDPR. Not that I’d want to visit those
That should really be a 451 error.
VPN is your friend.
Dont forget Tor.
This is the right approach, but also want to mention, some sites actively block VPN IPs. Sometimes I see 403s which don’t persist if I switch servers.
sites also block based in browser profiling… JS off and you didnt accept their 3rd party cookies? BLOCK!
Yeah ik
I use it 80% of times
you get 404 with VPN?
I’ve actually encountered it a couple of times trying to access some Israeli sites. More specifically I’ve encountered it in Hareetz for sure and I think it was after I disabled the clearURLs extension that it was fixed. And another site that I still cannot access is the Israeli post. I’ve managed to access it after turning on VPN and trying a couple different locations, but it gives me this 403 error whenever I try to open it w/o VPN. And also on the same site, my antivirus has warned me about a JS/Agent.PIV threat a couple of times that I’ve tried to open it, not every time, but it has happened multiple times, as I’ve had to track an order for some days.
I rarely see it but it happens every now and then. And I sometimes get paywalls or videos are georestricted. And some websites don’t want to implement the GDPR and refuse service to european users.
And Project Gutenberg (the book archive) had been blocked in germany for years.
Btw there is a dedicated http error code proposed instead of just the 403: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451
And Project Gutenberg (the book archive) had been blocked in germany for years.
Wtf! Why?
Legal issues. I think they got sued and geoblocked the whole country for years. We don’t have the same concept of ‘public domain’ here. I think it’s 70 years after the death of the author here. And Project Gutenberg uploads books way earlier since it’s a fixed (and shorter) amount of years after first publication in the USA.
That sounds almost exactly like the US copyright rule since 1978.
Very rarely from a search engine. Very often when following forum posts from a decade ago.
403 times
Have you tried using another search service other than G00Gle?
Id you don’t like it, get a VPN or consider replacing your government.
