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> The website is blocked in a dozen countries, including Austria, Britain, and France. In Austria the providers do block it, but it's still reachable via the *
by alpaca128 5y ago
> The website is blocked in a dozen countries, including Austria, Britain, and France.
In Austria the providers do block it, but it's still reachable via the *.st TLD. Not sure if that's an official sci-hub page or not, but it works.
- pmyteh 5y agoIt is blocked in the UK, but only using the usual 'good enough' quasi-voluntary measures that cover the bigger ISPs. It's accessible through my more hacker-friendly home broadband. Hilariously, it's also available through JANET, the British universities' networking system. So essentially every student and researcher in the country has access from work...
- failwhaleshark 5y agoThe bigger question is: Why promote or condone the gating of view access to published research at all? It's not okay.
- DaiPlusPlus 5y agoCopyright is the law of the land.
- draven 5y agoIt's blocked at the DNS level (at least here in France, it simply does not resolve.) I switched to DNS-over-HTTP in Firefox and it works.