Negita43 Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Why on earth does Advice (computer online shop) block UK IPs?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterw42 Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Probably saves them a lot of time and effort, responding to emails enquiries, orders from countries they don't ship to etc. Possibly a security measure, you cant get hacked from the other side of the world if its blocked 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Led Lolly Yellow Lolly Posted December 11, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 11, 2021 (edited) Since your question is not actually rhetorical I'll answer it. . . They block overseas IPs because there is no advantage to them serving content outside Thailand. The disadvantage of them allowing any IP is depletion of server resources, mostly scraper bots and attackers. Blocking of this kind is very common and reasonable. They will be allowing search engine bots through the firewall. Edited December 11, 2021 by Led Lolly Yellow Lolly 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunBENQ Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Led Lolly Yellow Lolly said: Blocking of this kind is very common and reasonable. If not blocked completely you might see a captcha (the "I am not a robot" check). Try this with a non Thai IP: https://www.thaismileair.com/en/ Read from a mate that he gets to do a captcha. Vice versa much more common: many websites protect against Thai IP adresses. (Thailand is considered "dangerous"/malware/bot pestered) If I open one of my webmail sites from Germany I always have to do the captcha. Try this with a Thai IP: https://www.homedepot.com/ Home Depot USA, was a topic here long ago (Access Denied). Could bet that it opened earlier today?? Edited December 11, 2021 by KhunBENQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Led Lolly Yellow Lolly Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 5 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said: (Thailand is considered "dangerous"/malware/bot pestered) The entire Thai IP space is indeed a cesspool of bots and malware. I don't have to tell you why of course, Thais think their phone number is an awesome password, where they even bother with a password. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunBENQ Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Just using a UK VPN and at least Advice site gives a proper error description (in contrast to the Home Depot example) Quote The owner of this website (www.advice.co.th) has banned the country or region your IP address is in (GB) from accessing this website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunBENQ Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Led Lolly Yellow Lolly said: Thais think their phone number is an awesome password, where they even bother with a password. Got a big grin when I entered my WiFi password to the mobile of a Thai family member. 8 characters?! So long? 5555 Edited December 11, 2021 by KhunBENQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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