So - I have been banned.

I rarely post comments here and always try and be respectful when I do.

I live in a country without free internet so I have to use a VPN to browse. You have banned VPNs from connecting.

I have disconnected to post this comment but I can’t go through the hassle of disconnecting everyone I want to browse this website so I will have to find another source of news.

There are plenty of parts of the world where the internet is not free, so banning VPNs is not acceptable.

Good bye.

I enjoyed my time here over more than a decade.

@norwichred we have not banned VPNs. I often use a VPN myself whilst testing things on the websites.

It's more likely some specific IP addresses have been banned, and shared public IPs are more likely to get "bad reputations" and get banned. Bots can often use them and start doing bad things.

If you email us ([email protected]) the specific IPs that are blocked we can investigate, but it is most likely not related to your specific account.

Seems to be OK now. Does the site use cloudflare? I skipped the warning too quickly to read it properly but I think it was a cloudflare message.

@norwichred yep, we use cloudflare to protect against bots, crawlers etc.

I remember the same thing happened to me some years ago. My iPhone's built-in ip protection service landed on a bad ip and got me blocked.