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I thought the 'Unavailable in your region' screenshots were faked until I hit one myself on a flight to Dublin | Censored Page Screenshots - Discusd

lisa976•12d ago

I thought the 'Unavailable in your region' screenshots were faked until I hit one myself on a flight to Dublin

For 2 years I rolled my eyes at people sharing those blocked page grabs, figured most were edited or old. Then last March I tried to pull up a recipe blog on the plane wifi somewhere over the Atlantic and got the full 'this content is not available in your country' page. I grabbed a screenshot right then. When I landed I checked the same link on airport wifi in Dublin and it loaded fine, same phone, same browser, 4 hours apart. That one side by side comparison did more than 50 forum arguments ever could. My question is whether anyone here has caught a case where the block was clearly about the topic itself and not just licensing or region rules. What gave it away for you?

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elliotr398d ago

That side by side comparison you did is the smartest thing in this whole post, because a screenshot alone really does prove nothing, but same link, same phone, two different networks hours apart, that's a real test. My question back to you is how do you even tell the difference between a topic based block and a boring licensing block, since both look identical on the screen. Like if a page about a court case or a health topic gets hit while a random cooking site loads fine from the same network, is that proof, or is it just that one site forgot to renew something. I've seen people swear a page was blocked for what it said when really the site was just down or the CDN threw a fit. So what did the block screen actually say in your Dublin case, did it name a country or a reason, or was it just the vague default page. Because the wording is where the real tell is, if there is one.