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?
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
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 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.
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.
Very rarely from a search engine. Very often when following forum posts from a decade ago.
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.
Have you tried using another search service other than G00Gle? Censorship is a big thing in their search
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