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tooki:

--- 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.
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(and yes this is what I get using a https address, so not the problem here.)

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No, not just you. It’s been blocked from
Switzerland for years, too. I guess it’s just a broad geographic block.
tooki:

--- Quote from: coppice on April 11, 2023, 11:53:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: ve7xen on April 11, 2023, 11:50:00 pm ---If Home Depot doesn't operate in and won't ship to addresses in the EU I don't see why they would care about the GDPR or other regulations that have no jurisdiction over their operations. It seems even easier to just ignore what people in irrelevant (to your operation) places are regulating.

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I basically agree, but its a bit weird to respond Access Denied. It seems a bit hostile to people who may at some point be in the US, and be potential customers. They could have a page which politely says "We don't operate in your locality", and leave it at that.

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I’ve always assumed that this type of ISP- or CDN-level blocking is primarily to prevent DDOS attacks.
tom66:

--- Quote from: tooki on April 12, 2023, 07:14:37 am ---I’ve always assumed that this type of ISP- or CDN-level blocking is primarily to prevent DDOS attacks.
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I would take a guess that it's done so that they can prove that there is absolutely no GDPR relevant information being collected.  If they're not going to make any money from EU customers, they don't want to deal with their data.  It's knee jerk, but then GDPR isn't exactly well designed legislation anyway (even if it is well intentioned.)
BravoV:
Ban ? What ban ? FJB !!!

My incand hoards lately ...  >:D



5U4GB:

--- Quote from: mendip_discovery on April 02, 2023, 08:27:41 am ---I did a quick look for the source of this news and its Fox. Quell surprise. I guess this explains the thought that it also means car headlight bulbs. I did chuckle as I went down the list on the search as one of the places which this is a hot topic is a AR15 forum.
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It's often not too hard to spot the Fox stuff.  Was watching a Youtube woodworking video a few months ago and the guy, who had to date only ever talked about woodworking in his videos, suddenly made some bizarre, couldn't-possibly-be-true claim about... well, I don't want to go down a political rathole over details but it was some "muh freedumbs" piece of crazy I thought could only have come from Fox.  Quick google and, sure enough...

In terms of LED lighting, we've had this in the house for at least ten years now and I'd never go back to those ghastly room-heaters with a little light as a side-effect that we used to have.  I checked the LED output once with a spectrometer and it was perfect daylight-balanced, the exact same spectrum you'd get from sunlight, with no flicker.
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