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nicwr2002
Joined: 17 Aug 2011
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 Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 3:27 pm Post subject: Korean ISPs blocking more websites? |
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| I've noticed that I can't click on any articles when I visit yahoo's homepage. Even my home computer won't allow me to see any articles unless I connect to my VPN. Has anyone else experienced this? Could this be related with the Black Friday sales going on in America? |
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Cave Dweller
Joined: 17 Aug 2014
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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Could be a lot to do with us being in a communist country.
I can't get any of my porn sites to work. I am having withdrawals from midget porn.
All of my games got blocked. English version of candy crush blocked, Korean version a-o-k. |
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radcon
Joined: 23 May 2011
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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| I have had the same problem since last night. I'm unable to open seemingly innocuous news stories on Yahoo. |
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nicwr2002
Joined: 17 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Yea, I thought it was just the work computers being blocked, but it's happening at home as well. I can connect to the news stories on my phone still, so that is weird. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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| I havent noticed any new access problems. |
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Cave Dweller
Joined: 17 Aug 2014
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2014 3:28 am Post subject: |
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| Everyone, VPNs are your friend. |
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Drew345
Joined: 24 May 2005
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| Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2014 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for posting on this, I was curious too. Yahoo news has been blocked for me since last Thurday. It works for VPNs, but not from my cable service. The hardest part was admitting that I read yahoo news. Maybe they are just trying to block Black Friday shopping and got carried away. |
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coralreefer_1
Joined: 19 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2014 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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I am certainly not very knowledgeable about the internet at all, but I dont think this is an action to "block" yahoo news. If that were the case, wouldn't we get the Korean warning page, rather than the "server not found/page not found" page?
I think it has something to do with the scripts in the address or on the homepage.. If clicked a story from the front page, and like others..failed to load. I googled the same story, and found the link to the story that originates on the Yahoo Tech page..where it loaded perfectly.
Not sure if that makes any sense, but just putting it out there that it doesnt appear there is some agenda to block the stories/articles. |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2014 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| The Korean government have made concerted efforts to prevent children accessing grumble videos. They'll have to wait until they are old enough to visit the rub 'n' tug joint on the corner. |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2014 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Btw, I highly recommend the VPN Tunnel Bear. Very cheap and good connectivity. It's what I use when I need to look at 'news' sites... |
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thrylos
Joined: 10 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2014 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| The Korean government have made concerted efforts to prevent children accessing grumble videos. They'll have to wait until they are old enough to visit the rub 'n' tug joint on the corner. |
Yes, but how will they catch the next Almond Tease?!?! |
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nicwr2002
Joined: 17 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2014 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| coralreefer_1 wrote: |
I am certainly not very knowledgeable about the internet at all, but I dont think this is an action to "block" yahoo news. If that were the case, wouldn't we get the Korean warning page, rather than the "server not found/page not found" page?
I think it has something to do with the scripts in the address or on the homepage.. If clicked a story from the front page, and like others..failed to load. I googled the same story, and found the link to the story that originates on the Yahoo Tech page..where it loaded perfectly.
Not sure if that makes any sense, but just putting it out there that it doesnt appear there is some agenda to block the stories/articles. |
I thought it didn't make sense as well, since like you, I was able to access the stories by Googling them. However, if I connect to my VPN and then go through Yahoo to click on the articles, I am able to access them again. Therefore, it isn't a script problem I would think and I have tried Explorer, Chrome, and Firefox. The funny thing is that I can still access the articles on my smart phone. |
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SeoulNate
Joined: 04 Jun 2010
Location: Hyehwa
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| Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2014 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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What is this 'yahoo news' you speak of?
Is that some new age slang for porn? |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2014 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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| I had some difficulty getting Yahoo on Saturday but I just figured it was a local server problem. Yahoo seems a little slow from time to time in Korea, for whatever reasons. |
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