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Jim Hart
April 26th, 2015, 10:48 PM
I rarely want to add comments to an internet site but when I tried today I
got this response:
*Could not post due to your internet settings, which might be controlled by
your provider. Please contact your administrator or disable any proxy
servers or VPNs and try again.*

Can anyone suggest why this might appear and what I might do about it? I'm
sure I've posted comments before. I haven't to my knowledge changed
anything. Same ISP, same browser (Firefox though it may have updated itself
recently), no VPN or proxy server (AFAIK). The site was theguardian.com if
that's relevant.

Upside was it reminded me I have better things to do.

Jim

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Daniel Widdis
April 26th, 2015, 11:22 PM
Some person who I presume is completely unrelated to you and using a Mac
computer got exactly that same error from the Guardian website.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6995419?start=0&tstart=0

My assumption is the Guardian website is very picky about IP addresses
and somehow mistook you (and carolinefromcottonwood) as using some site
they want to block.


On 4/26/15 8:48 PM, Jim Hart wrote:
> I rarely want to add comments to an internet site but when I tried
> today I got this response:
> /Could not post due to your internet settings, which might be
> controlled by your provider. Please contact your administrator or
> disable any proxy servers or VPNs and try again./
>
> Can anyone suggest why this might appear and what I might do about it?
> I'm sure I've posted comments before. I haven't to my knowledge
> changed anything. Same ISP, same browser (Firefox though it may have
> updated itself recently), no VPN or proxy server (AFAIK). The site
> was theguardian.com if that's relevant.
>
> Upside was it reminded me I have better things to do.

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Jim Hart
April 27th, 2015, 01:35 AM
You're right we are unrelated. Seems like no point in trying to adjust my
settings. Not that important and stops me wasting even more time when I
could be doing important online stuff like Dixonary.



On Monday, 27 April 2015 14:22:37 UTC+10, Daniel Widdis wrote:
>
> Some person who I presume is completely unrelated to you and using a Mac
> computer got exactly that same error from the Guardian website.
> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6995419?start=0&tstart=0
>
> My assumption is the Guardian website is very picky about IP addresses and
> somehow mistook you (and carolinefromcottonwood) as using some site they
> want to block.
>
>
> On 4/26/15 8:48 PM, Jim Hart wrote:
>
> I rarely want to add comments to an internet site but when I tried today
> I got this response:
> *Could not post due to your internet settings, which might be controlled
> by your provider. Please contact your administrator or disable any proxy
> servers or VPNs and try again.*
>
> Can anyone suggest why this might appear and what I might do about it? I'm
> sure I've posted comments before. I haven't to my knowledge changed
> anything. Same ISP, same browser (Firefox though it may have updated itself
> recently), no VPN or proxy server (AFAIK). The site was theguardian.com
> if that's relevant.
>
> Upside was it reminded me I have better things to do.
>
>
>

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