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I got a beefy one so I got curious to see this. And here is the response I got: Access Denied You don't have permission to access "http://www.homedepot.com/ ht

I got a beefy one so I got curious to see this. And here is the response I got: Access Denied You don't have permission to access "http://www.homedepot.com/ http://www.homedepot.com/" on this server. Reference #18.669a1702.1607500613.3482d63b I lol'ed.

dncornholio 6y ago
Same here, EU, think they block based on geo data?
- dismantlethesun 6y ago
  They probably do. Since, I left the US on vacation, I've noticed a lot of US-only retail sites are blocked outside of the states. For example Safeway, a popular grocery chain, is blocked. Sometimes the block comes with a scary warning saying that the site has detected a hacking attempt, and stopped your IP at the firewall.
  - culturestate 6y ago
    Interestingly, loading homedepot.com from Singapore gives me the full site and automatically sets my ordering location to their store in Guam...
  - rozab 6y ago
    Local news sites are the worst for it. It's understandable, but it sometimes makes reading HN a pain
  - nfriedly 6y ago
    I made a web proxy about 10 years ago - you can stick it on a raspberry pi or some cloud server and then use it to browse from that machine's IP. It doesn't work for everything (e.g. OAuth) but it's fast and convenient for a lot of things. Core library: https://github.com/nfriedly/node-unblocker https://github.com/nfriedly/node-unblocker Example web app: https://github.com/nfriedly/nodeunblocker.com https://github.com/nfriedly/nodeunblocker.com I don't keep a copy of it online anymore because the ones I put up got a little too popular, but if you don't tell anyone else, you should be able to use it indefinitely.
- seszett 6y ago
  It works for me from Belgium, but not from France.
- ARandomerDude 6y ago
  GDPR
tecleandor 6y ago
I think that's the "easy" way to manage GDPR that lots of non-EU (particularly from the USA) site are using: - EU IP? Blocked. It's beyond silly.
- Cthulhu_ 6y ago
  It's not: they don't operate in the EU, they don't want to give up their tracking, and they don't want to conform to EU privacy measures. That's perfectly fine, and simply denying EU visitors is the easiest and cheapest solution.
  - lou1306 6y ago
    But then, it should respond with a 451 error rather than a generic 403 :)
    - Rexxar 6y ago
      So "big brother" that want to track everything use a reference to 1984 to criticize a law that protect against it ? Perfect double speak in action (sadly).
      - lou1306 6y ago
        The 451 code (which, by the way, is a reference to Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, not Orwell's 1984) just says that a resource is "unavailable for legal reasons". These "legal reasons" may be user-hostile (e.g., censorship) or user-friendly (e.g., GDPR). Having said that, it's just good form to specify why exactly a request was denied rather than spitting out an "access denied" response and call it a day. Be liberal in what you receive, conservative in what you send, yada yada.
        Rexxar 6y ago
        Indeed, for some reasons the two books are very near in my memory and each time I think to one of them memories of the other comes.
michaelmrose 6y ago
Are you connected to a VPN I get the same issue with Fred Meyer from a vpn.

dncornholio 6y ago

Same here, EU, think they block based on geo data?

dismantlethesun 6y ago
They probably do. Since, I left the US on vacation, I've noticed a lot of US-only retail sites are blocked outside of the states. For example Safeway, a popular grocery chain, is blocked. Sometimes the block comes with a scary warning saying that the site has detected a hacking attempt, and stopped your IP at the firewall.
- culturestate 6y ago
  Interestingly, loading homedepot.com from Singapore gives me the full site and automatically sets my ordering location to their store in Guam...
- rozab 6y ago
  Local news sites are the worst for it. It's understandable, but it sometimes makes reading HN a pain
- nfriedly 6y ago
  I made a web proxy about 10 years ago - you can stick it on a raspberry pi or some cloud server and then use it to browse from that machine's IP. It doesn't work for everything (e.g. OAuth) but it's fast and convenient for a lot of things. Core library: https://github.com/nfriedly/node-unblocker https://github.com/nfriedly/node-unblocker Example web app: https://github.com/nfriedly/nodeunblocker.com https://github.com/nfriedly/nodeunblocker.com I don't keep a copy of it online anymore because the ones I put up got a little too popular, but if you don't tell anyone else, you should be able to use it indefinitely.
seszett 6y ago
It works for me from Belgium, but not from France.
ARandomerDude 6y ago
GDPR

tecleandor 6y ago

I think that's the "easy" way to manage GDPR that lots of non-EU (particularly from the USA) site are using: - EU IP? Blocked. It's beyond silly.

Cthulhu_ 6y ago
It's not: they don't operate in the EU, they don't want to give up their tracking, and they don't want to conform to EU privacy measures. That's perfectly fine, and simply denying EU visitors is the easiest and cheapest solution.
- lou1306 6y ago
  But then, it should respond with a 451 error rather than a generic 403 :)
  - Rexxar 6y ago
    So "big brother" that want to track everything use a reference to 1984 to criticize a law that protect against it ? Perfect double speak in action (sadly).
    - lou1306 6y ago
      The 451 code (which, by the way, is a reference to Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, not Orwell's 1984) just says that a resource is "unavailable for legal reasons". These "legal reasons" may be user-hostile (e.g., censorship) or user-friendly (e.g., GDPR). Having said that, it's just good form to specify why exactly a request was denied rather than spitting out an "access denied" response and call it a day. Be liberal in what you receive, conservative in what you send, yada yada.
      - Rexxar 6y ago
        Indeed, for some reasons the two books are very near in my memory and each time I think to one of them memories of the other comes.

michaelmrose 6y ago

Are you connected to a VPN I get the same issue with Fred Meyer from a vpn.