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Comment by embedding-shape

5 hours ago

Curiously, this website seems to be blocked in Spain for whatever reason, and the website's certificate is served by `allot.com/emailAddress=info@allot.com` which obviously fails...

Anyone happen to know why? Is this website by any change sharing information on safe medical abortions or women's rights, something which has gotten websites blocked here before?

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Fornax96  4 hours ago

Creator of pixeldrain here. I have no idea why my site is blocked in Spain, but it's a long running issue.

I actually never discovered who was responsible for the blockade, until I read this comment. I'm going to look into Allot and send them an email.

EDIT: Also, your DNS provider is censoring (and probably monitoring) your internet traffic. I would switch to a different provider.

  • embedding-shape  4 hours ago

    > EDIT: Also, your DNS provider is censoring (and probably monitoring) your internet traffic. I would switch to a different provider.

    Yeah, that was via my ISPs DNS resolver (Vodafone), switching the resolver works :)

    The responsible party is ultimately our government who've decided it's legal to block a wide range of servers and websites because some people like to watch illegal football streams. I think Allot is just the provider of the technology.

    • Fornax96  4 hours ago

      My site has nothing to do with football though. And Allot seems to be running the DNS server that your ISP uses so they are directly responsible for the block.

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  • zozbot234  4 hours ago

    Could it be that some site in your network neighborhood was illegally streaming soccer matches?

    • Fornax96  4 hours ago

      I have my own dedicated IP range. And they specifically blocked my domain name, not the addresses. I don't know what the reason is. I have been trying to find out since the start of this year.