Morning,Is anyone else having trouble accessing UKE & UKP as yesterday and earlier today I was getting messages like this. Due to abuse from trolls, your internet provider has been blocked from accessing this site. Anyone got any ideas? It's doin me fekin swede in.............
Only happens when you're using a proxy or VPN, they are automatically blocked.
You're online now. So don't do what you did yesterday.
Used to get this quite often when using hotel WiFi
one minute I can't get in, then the next time I try, Bob's ya Uncle, and it's OK.
Cheers DM, didn't know I had or was using either. I shall try and find the twats and disable them..............
If you're using Opera browser there is a VPN built in, though I don't know how difficult it would be to accidentally activate it. If I'm remembering correctly I also had an issue with this when using Ghostery or a similar extension, though I was using that many I didn't pinpoint it.
You tried a bit of lube?Looking forward to your review of uncle Bob
I use Opera for all punting activities but I don't think VPN could be activated accidentally, you have to go - menu - settings - advanced - then scroll down a fair way to find it. I know if I have activated it to use P2P sites for example I get the same as S-M is if I forget to turn it off and try to sign in here.
I sometimes use a private browsing window (ctrl+shift+N), and there's a button left of the address bar. It's two button presses but still not something I think you could accidentally do though.
Hadn't tried that but as you say it's not going to happen by accident. Would be handy to know what S-M uses when he has the problem, browser etc and whether it's home internet connection, mobile (4G) or wifi hotspot.
It's always at home DM using Firefox and Talk Talk.
You might want to try Private Mode on Firefox, I'm sure that Google Chrome will have something similar too.
All very strange, must be something to do with Talk Talk if it's OK one minute and not the next.