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wakest ⁂

I was looking up some cinderblock images to draw and noticed that homedepot.com blocked here (I am in Tbilisi Georgia), I don't know if its blocked by the ISP or by Home Depot themselves but I get a white CSS-less page with the text:

Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "homedepot.com/b/Building-Mater" on this server.

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1 Oct 2022 at 21:51 | Open on social.wake.st
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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

@liaizon its Homedepot blocking anything IP that is vaguely European rather than comply with GDPR; I can't view any of the site from the UK either..

1 Oct 2022 at 21:53 | Open on social.tchncs.de
halcy​:icosahedron:

@liaizon i think they’re one of the companies that do this to try and dodge the GDPR

1 Oct 2022 at 21:54 | Open on icosahedron.website
halcy​:icosahedron:

@liaizon (and don’t specifically block the EU, just everything non USA)

1 Oct 2022 at 21:55 | Open on icosahedron.website
jbauer

@liaizon I can view the site from here in Canada. But IIRC I had the same issue when I was in Germany, so I think they might just restrict their site to north america 🤦‍♂️

1 Oct 2022 at 21:55 | Open on merveilles.town
wakest ⁂

thanks to a number of quick replies I guess homedepot is just lazy and racist lol

1 Oct 2022 at 21:57 | Open on social.wake.st
Raktapadma

@liaizon Well, it's blocked in Argentina too.

1 Oct 2022 at 23:46 | Open on mastodon.cloud
Pavel

@liaizon many many websites do this actually

2 Oct 2022 at 11:34 | Open on vis.social
wakest ⁂

@pavel its weird to me they would just display an error message though and not at least like their logo and some information

2 Oct 2022 at 11:37 | Open on social.wake.st
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