Comment on Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My home network is all under Mullvad for a few months now, and I’ve noticed that recently a lot of pages block it. I just get a 403 error and I need to disable it to access. Honestly I expect this to happen more and more, which is BS.
Is it due to geo-blocking?
I have noticed that some sites would load my local language version even if I point out original site. E.g. southpark.cc.com would stubbornly redirect to southpark.de no matter how you tried to trick it. And, of course, some content on some sites would also report that is is unavailable in my region.
No, I actually use an exit on my country for that reason.
jim3692@discuss.online 4 months ago
Keep in mind that a lot of webpages block traffic from datacenters, as they are trying to protect themselves from AI scrappers. I recently had an issue with OpenAI making thousands of requests to one of my servers.
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 4 months ago
OpenAI is the leach that keeps on leaching