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Old Mar 16, 2024 | 6:45 am
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Originally Posted by StuckInYYZ
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...
I messaged FT about it a while back. They were really nice and offered to try to work with their provider and whitelist the address I was using. I explained that isn't really a viable solution since one's endpoint is likely to be different every time they turn on their VPN.
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