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Probably the xx in the domain. In the UK where 20% of the internet is blocked – it's surprising you haven't experienced this before. Call your service provider

by kypro 4y ago

Probably the xx in the domain. In the UK where 20% of the internet is blocked – it's surprising you haven't experienced this before. Call your service provider and tell them you want access to adult material.

circuit10 4y ago
> In the UK where 20% of the internet is blocked That’s not true. I’ve experienced this once before that I can remember, on https://hackmii.com/ https://hackmii.com/ and it doesn’t happen on my home network except on actual scam sites which isn’t a government thing but an ISP feature that can probably be turned off. This is a Vodaphone thing, not a UK thing. I don’t care that much about this specific site, I guess I just want to complain that they don’t have a way to report false positives which maybe isn’t the best reason to post a comment on an unrelated article but still
Karellen 4y ago
> Probably the xx in the domain. According to the `considered-18` post linked by a sibling comment: > It shows that this filter is for this specific host name only [daniel.haxx.se], not for the entire haxx.se domain. So, even more of a WTF.
- techwiz137 4y ago
  Someone probably saw daniel, ha, xxx interpreted it "It's me Daniel, ha, this is my porn collection" and flagged it.
jojobas 4y ago
Obligatory oi/porn license.
vidarh 4y ago
> In the UK where 20% of the internet is blocked This sounds like an extreme over-estimate. Some ISP's, mostly mobile ones, default to blocking "adult material" unless you tell them to turn that off. Some of the larger ISPs are under court order to block some specific other content (Pirate Bay in particular; my old ISP was one of them, my current ISP happily lets me access it, not that I've ever done so other than to see if it's blocked). Most ISPs block at most a tiny set of sites and personally in 23 years of using UK ISPs I've never "organically" run into those blocks (as in, no site I actually had any interest in accessing has been blocked; I've only seen them when checking whether people were right that a specific site was blocked). And yes, that includes visiting sites with "adult material" without running into any blocks. I do have a VPN, so it'd take me as long to bypass as it takes me to press one button in my browser address bar, but I only need that to evade IP region/country blocks - never needed it to get around UK filtering.
aflag 4y ago
> Call your service provider and tell them you want access to adult material. That must be one awkward call.
- regularfry 4y ago
  They overblock, probably intentionally, so it's easy to find a "legit" reason to unblock. It was something really banal for me - I think they'd blocked a furniture site or something.
  - viraptor 4y ago
    Accessing adult material is a legit reason to unblock.
    - regularfry 4y ago
      Buying furniture is a very adult proposition.
- prmoustache 4y ago
  Why? They already know a large number of people watch porn.
  - aflag 4y ago
    We pretend no one does, though.
bin_bash 4y ago
he says in the article they only block "daniel.haxx.se", not other subdomains
rob74 4y ago
Try this one: https://www.xxxlutz.at/ https://www.xxxlutz.at/ (don't worry, it's an Austrian furniture chain).
- circuit10 4y ago
  That’s not blocked
  - circuit10 4y ago
    Wait, but the site in the article isn’t either any more?
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Quarrel 4y ago
My ISP in the UK does not block anything. Even on those that do, 20% seems rather high??

by kypro 4y ago

circuit10 4y ago

> In the UK where 20% of the internet is blocked That’s not true. I’ve experienced this once before that I can remember, on https://hackmii.com/ https://hackmii.com/ and it doesn’t happen on my home network except on actual scam sites which isn’t a government thing but an ISP feature that can probably be turned off. This is a Vodaphone thing, not a UK thing. I don’t care that much about this specific site, I guess I just want to complain that they don’t have a way to report false positives which maybe isn’t the best reason to post a comment on an unrelated article but still

Karellen 4y ago

> Probably the xx in the domain. According to the `considered-18` post linked by a sibling comment: > It shows that this filter is for this specific host name only [daniel.haxx.se], not for the entire haxx.se domain. So, even more of a WTF.

techwiz137 4y ago
Someone probably saw daniel, ha, xxx interpreted it "It's me Daniel, ha, this is my porn collection" and flagged it.

jojobas 4y ago

Obligatory oi/porn license.

vidarh 4y ago

> In the UK where 20% of the internet is blocked This sounds like an extreme over-estimate. Some ISP's, mostly mobile ones, default to blocking "adult material" unless you tell them to turn that off. Some of the larger ISPs are under court order to block some specific other content (Pirate Bay in particular; my old ISP was one of them, my current ISP happily lets me access it, not that I've ever done so other than to see if it's blocked). Most ISPs block at most a tiny set of sites and personally in 23 years of using UK ISPs I've never "organically" run into those blocks (as in, no site I actually had any interest in accessing has been blocked; I've only seen them when checking whether people were right that a specific site was blocked). And yes, that includes visiting sites with "adult material" without running into any blocks. I do have a VPN, so it'd take me as long to bypass as it takes me to press one button in my browser address bar, but I only need that to evade IP region/country blocks - never needed it to get around UK filtering.

aflag 4y ago

> Call your service provider and tell them you want access to adult material. That must be one awkward call.

regularfry 4y ago
They overblock, probably intentionally, so it's easy to find a "legit" reason to unblock. It was something really banal for me - I think they'd blocked a furniture site or something.
- viraptor 4y ago
  Accessing adult material is a legit reason to unblock.
  - regularfry 4y ago
    Buying furniture is a very adult proposition.
prmoustache 4y ago
Why? They already know a large number of people watch porn.
- aflag 4y ago
  We pretend no one does, though.

bin_bash 4y ago

he says in the article they only block "daniel.haxx.se", not other subdomains

rob74 4y ago

Try this one: https://www.xxxlutz.at/ https://www.xxxlutz.at/ (don't worry, it's an Austrian furniture chain).

circuit10 4y ago
That’s not blocked
- circuit10 4y ago
  Wait, but the site in the article isn’t either any more?

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Quarrel 4y ago

My ISP in the UK does not block anything. Even on those that do, 20% seems rather high??