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Old Mar 15, 2024 | 1:36 pm
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StuckInYYZ
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Originally Posted by HDQDD
Or you could be like this website (or its proxy: cloudflare) and try to wholesale block VPN access... There is a high level of ironicality in a website for travel discussion blocking VPNs.

Usually I can get around that by just reconnecting until I get an ASN that isn't blacklisted by cloudflare.
To be honest, I never understood that for FT. For a full blown ecommerce site, yes. But unless IB is selling geographic data (and they could), it's really kinda pointless to block VPN access to FT. Readers will be coming from all over the world. But after the Trending page issue, what do I know about advertising...
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