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>I just want to emphasize that if you install and run Windows, your friendly provider is Microsoft. You need to contact Microsoft for support and help with Windows related issues. Worth remembering this is only the case if you buy a retail license. If you cheaped out with an OEM license, you are your own customer support and Microsoft won't help you. If you bought a laptop or pre-made desktop, you have an OEM license…
Vodaphone blocks this site for being “18+ content”, I guess because of “hacking” or something? There’s no explanation or option to report a false positive and they want you to put in credit card details to confirm your age to unlock it (I don’t need tips to get around this or anything, I can just connect to another network or use a VPN)
Probably the xx in the domain. In the UK where 20% of the internet is blocked – it's surprising you haven't experienced this before. Call your service provider and tell them you want access to adult material.
According to the `considered-18` post linked by a sibling comment:
> It shows that this filter is for this specific host name only [daniel.haxx.se], not for the entire haxx.se domain.
So, even more of a WTF.
Vodaphone blocks this site for being “18+ content”, I guess because of “hacking” or something? There’s no explanation or option to report a false positive and they want you to put in credit card details to confirm your age to unlock it (I don’t need tips to get around this or anything, I can just connect to another network or use a VPN)
Probably the xx in the domain. In the UK where 20% of the internet is blocked – it's surprising you haven't experienced this before. Call your service provider and tell them you want access to adult material.
Vodaphone blocks this site for being “18+ content”, I guess because of “hacking” or something? There’s no explanation or option to report a false positive and they want you to put in credit card details to confirm your age to unlock it (I don’t need tips to get around this or anything, I can just connect to another network or use a VPN)
Vodaphone blocks this site for being “18+ content”, I guess because of “hacking” or something? There’s no explanation or option to report a false positive and they want you to put in credit card details to confirm your age to unlock it (I don’t need tips to get around this or anything, I can just connect to another network or use a VPN)
Probably the xx in the domain. In the UK where 20% of the internet is blocked – it's surprising you haven't experienced this before. Call your service provider and tell them you want access to adult material.
This sounds like an extreme over-estimate. Some ISP's, mostly mobile ones, default to blocking "adult material" unless you tell them to turn that off. Some of the larger ISPs are under court order to block some specific other content (Pirate Bay in particular; my old ISP was one of them, my current ISP happily lets me access it, not that I've ever done so other than to see if it's blocked).
Most ISPs block at most a tiny set of sites and personally in 23 years of using UK ISPs I've never "organically" run into those blocks (as in, no site I actually had any interest in accessing has been blocked; I've only seen them when checking whether people were right that a specific site was blocked). And yes, that includes visiting sites with "adult material" without running into any blocks.
I do have a VPN, so it'd take me as long to bypass as it takes me to press one button in my browser address bar, but I only need that to evade IP region/country blocks - never needed it to get around UK filtering.
Vodaphone blocks this site for being “18+ content”, I guess because of “hacking” or something? There’s no explanation or option to report a false positive and they want you to put in credit card details to confirm your age to unlock it (I don’t need tips to get around this or anything, I can just connect to another network or use a VPN)
>(I don’t need tips to get around this or anything, I can just connect to another network or use a VPN) A better solution would be to tell Vodafone to switch off the censorship on your service.
People who delete system binaries due to whacky CVEs deserve a broken system. I don't even know who else to blame for this.
The people who told them that deleting system binaries would fix their problems?
> I have been pointed to responses on the Microsoft site answers.microsoft.com done by “helpful volunteers” that specifically recommend removing the curl.exe executable as a fix.
Don't trust strangers on the internet with advice you don't understand the implications of. Even if they are sincere and mean well, they can still be wrong.
Vodaphone blocks this site for being “18+ content”, I guess because of “hacking” or something? There’s no explanation or option to report a false positive and they want you to put in credit card details to confirm your age to unlock it (I don’t need tips to get around this or anything, I can just connect to another network or use a VPN)
Vodafone... https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/05/02/considered-18/
>I just want to emphasize that if you install and run Windows, your friendly provider is Microsoft. You need to contact Microsoft for support and help with Windows related issues. Worth remembering this is only the case if you buy a retail license. If you cheaped out with an OEM license, you are your own customer support and Microsoft won't help you. If you bought a laptop or pre-made desktop, you have an OEM license…