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Subject: Re: Clicking a stored shortcut and being told "Sorry, you have been blocked" ?
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"R.Wieser" wrote:

> I've never used a VPN, and have no wish to start paying for one 

Me neither (except for workplace VPNs)

but firefox and opera may allow you to use a free VPN?

> But I think I found a likely cause.  Do you ever visit websites which demand
> you should disable ad-blockers - that you do not have ?  And when inspecting
> the page source its just some crap that gets removed with a bit of
> Javascript ?
> 
> It looks like thats the cause : My browser doesn't do JS, so all that I see
> is initial 403 page - which only gets replaced when a bit of JS causes a
> navigation to another webpage :
> 
> ( /cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/scripts/jsd/main.js )

 From cloudflare?

> Oh well, another website down the drain. :-(