• Philo@discuss.online
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    9 months ago

    That’s freakin hilarious. CNN is pulling a YouTube and blocking me cause I use an ad blocker 😀

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      9 months ago

      That’s curious, I use UBlock Origin and Cookie Autodelete on Firefox and I’m not getting blocked, with or without my VPN connected. The CNN page loads via Tor and the Tor browser too.

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        9 months ago

        Some links to cNN work fine. Others don’t. Maybe it has to do with the referrer. Trust me, it’s happening to other people too.

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          9 months ago

          Oh I believe you, I block aggressively and lots of sites break because of it. Not so much YT though, oddly enuf, and I’m a dedicated freeloader there. Mostly I encounter IP-based blocking due to the VPN and using European IPs (I’m in the States).