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I visited albertsons.com out of curiosity, but I was instantly banned. Even using an unmodified Chromium browser, I couldn't access the site. It's ridiculous wh
by ringer 2y ago
I visited albertsons.com out of curiosity, but I was instantly banned. Even using an unmodified Chromium browser, I couldn't access the site. It's ridiculous what's happening on the internet today.
The error:
```
Access denied
Error 16
www.albertsons.com
2025-01-03 09:30:00 UTC
What happened?
This request was blocked by our security service
Your IP: xxx
Proxy IP: xxx (ID xxx)
Incident ID: XXX
Powered by Imperva
```
- bastard_op 2y agoTheir Imperva WAF usually challenges me repeatedly during use trying to buy groceries from my pc, and most of the time I get tired of having to disable every security extension I use with Firefox to use Albertsons because of their shitty website. Never outright block though. Might be worth checking some enterprise threat lists for whatever IP's your popping up on (ie Imperva and Cloudflare), or something uniquely fingerprints you from your browser. I use multiple extensions to block whatever they each can, and even I'm not treated that badly as you for wherever you are coming online from. Here's Fortinet's you can check your IP against, they all tend to roughly use the same lists eventually: https://www.fortiguard.com/iprep https://www.fortiguard.com/iprep
- Kwpolska 2y agoImmediate bans might be related to the country you're in. This is a US retailer, and there is zero reason for someone outside of the US to visit that site. Blocking foreign visitors allows them to ignore GDPR, for example.
- ringer 2y agoIn this case, they may display a message like: 'This page is intended for USA visitors only. Our services do not operate outside the USA.', but no, they say you are banned because just...