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| SiliconWizard:
Apparently Home Depot has banned access in some countries. Or maybe it's just me. :-DD --- Quote ---Access Denied You don't have permission to access "http://www.homedepot.com/" on this server. --- End quote --- (and yes this is what I get using a https address, so not the problem here.) |
| TimFox:
I couldn't find anything about blocking access to the website, but under shipping they state: "We are not able to ship to international destinations, PO Boxes, APO/FPO/DPO addresses at this time." Googling gives alternative shipping routes through third parties, but not very useful if they block you from the website. |
| coppice:
--- Quote from: TimFox on April 11, 2023, 08:28:03 pm ---Looking at the Home Depot website, I found a good collection of that brand (in the usual range of wattage) in what appear to be old-fashioned (non-halogen) incandescent bulbs for "utility" purposes, as opposed to "general service lamps" to be banned by existing regulations. --- End quote --- The utility option makes sense. It would take a major technological change for putting a non-incandescent lamp in a cupboard, where its turned on for just a a minute or two a day, to become either ecologically or economically superior to an incandescent one. |
| Monkeh:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on April 11, 2023, 09:06:16 pm ---Apparently Home Depot has banned access in some countries. Or maybe it's just me. :-DD --- Quote ---Access Denied You don't have permission to access "http://www.homedepot.com/" on this server. --- End quote --- (and yes this is what I get using a https address, so not the problem here.) --- End quote --- Why comply with GDPR when you can just block the rest of the world? |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: Monkeh on April 11, 2023, 09:24:21 pm --- --- Quote from: SiliconWizard on April 11, 2023, 09:06:16 pm ---Apparently Home Depot has banned access in some countries. Or maybe it's just me. :-DD --- Quote ---Access Denied You don't have permission to access "http://www.homedepot.com/" on this server. --- End quote --- (and yes this is what I get using a https address, so not the problem here.) --- End quote --- Why comply with GDPR when you can just block the rest of the world? --- End quote --- Why not just block the rest of the world? Home Depot is a US retail chain of big box stores very similar to B&Q, they don't sell internationally so I can see their rationale for just blocking anywhere with regulations that would require extra effort to comply with. They're not blocking anyone that is buying their products. Blocking is the path of least resistance. |
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