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
VPN is your friend.
Yeah ik
I use it 80% of times
you get 404 with VPN?
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!
That should really be a 451 error.
Very rarely from a search engine. Very often when following forum posts from a decade ago.
Never. The only time it hapens is if I’m trying to access something not approved in my work pc. In my home never. But Iran is in “the list” so yeah you’ll probably have trouble even paying for vpn, but you can get some free options to bypass that
edit: don’t live in the US
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
I live in the US and sometimes German music on YouTube is blocked from my region because of their licensing laws, but it isn’t something I encounter often.
Only a few time and most of em was from youtube .
Many, many times… but not as much in the last decade and a half.
403 times
Id you don’t like it, get a VPN or consider replacing your government.
