Occasionally I am told “You are blocked” or something similar when trying to access European web sites. A few possible reasons are then listed, such as I click faster than a human, JavaScript is disabled, or a robot is operating under my IP address.
Via a VPN I do get access.
While this is a good enough solution, I wonder: Is/was a device on my home network infected so that my IP address or the ISP (Nuro) is blacklisted somewhere? Or do these sites just geoblock any requests coming from Japan? Is there a way to find out?
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Your IP (or block) could be on some DNSBL. You can check using some website, ex. here: https://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check
Back in the days, dynamic dialup / pppoe IP pools were blacklisted on all the mail servers etc to prevent abuse. I didn’t think such stuff was still happening.
Websites all over the world geoblock each other, it’s not a European website exclusive thing.
Probably a lazy asia geoblock. I’ve run into them a few times.
Geoblocking is very common and the reverse happens as well. I was in Europe last month and noticed I was blocked from using Yahoo JP. Probably they don’t want to deal with European tracking laws.