I have recently encountered a number of websites that I have been able to access before I cannot access from Thailand now.  These are pretty mainstream sites suck as Southwest Airlines, Macy’s, amd my mortgage site.  I have tried multiple computers, wi-fi, and different cities.  Is anyone else experiencing this?  If so, is there a work around anyone knows?

For Southwest Airlines, the problem has not been limited to Thailand recently:

 

https://www.southwestaircommunity.com/t5/General-Travel-Policies/Website-access/td-p/47364/page/4

For me on AIS Fibre in Bangkok I get an Access Denied response when trying Southwest but can reach Macy's OK when using a Thailand IP address.  Switch to a Singapore or US IP address and no problem reaching Southwest.  Southwest servers are just blocking Thailand IP addresses.

 

https://www.southwest.com/

https://www.macys.com/

43 minutes ago, Pib said:

Switch to a Singapore or US IP address and no problem reaching Southwest.

Same for me.

Stupidos for an airline.

Same with https://www.macys.com

OK, who needs Macy's

 

1 hour ago, drvin said:

If so, is there a work around anyone knows?

As written, a VPN helps.

There are free solutions but I don't know much about it.

I use paid subscription of PureVPN.

 

From a thread long ago:

https://www.homedepot.com/

same same

(someone wanted to browse the site to tell folks back home what to bring with them)

50 minutes ago, Pib said:

but can reach Macy's OK when using a Thailand IP address

Interesting difference. ToT fiber denied access.

This discussion about Southwest Airlines is very interesting.  In July, I booked tickets with them with no problems, same as I've been doing for a number of years.  I'll be needing to book tickets with them again, but now I also can't get into their site.  I did make a change between last July and now when I cancelled my True cable service, which I've had for the last 7 years, and am now using AIS fibre.   I do wonder if this may be a True vs AIS problem.

 

The only VPN I use is the free Zenmate add on for Chrome, which gives me 4 servers, the US, Germany, Romania, and Hong Kong.  I can get into the Southwest site using the US and Germany servers, but not with the Romanian and Hong Kong servers.  Go figure!

 

Without using Zenmate, I have no problem with the Macy's site but also cannot get into the homedepot site.