I live in iran, and i see this all the time
“This service is blocked because of the laws of USA! blah blah blah…”
VPN is your friend.
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?
That should really be a 451 error.
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
Many, many times… but not as much in the last decade and a half.
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.
Id you don’t like it, get a VPN or consider replacing your government.
