[tor-talk] Sites blocking Tor

[Roman Mamedov]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 20:57:57 +0200
Lars Noodén <lars.nooden at gmail.com> wrote:

> I checked the FAQ and it is unclear about precisely what to do about
> sites that gratuitously block Tor.  Just recently I noticed that
> www.justice.gov blocks Tor.  For example the URL
> 
>  http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/exhibits/1332.pdf
> 
> and the search function at the site's start.
> 
>  http://www.justice.gov/
> 
> Should these be noted somewhere or a ticket filed?

--
  www.justice.gov is an alias for www.justice.gov.edgesuite.net.
  www.justice.gov.edgesuite.net is an alias for a1170.dscb.akamai.net.
--

This is again Akamai. "Sites blocking Tor" repeatedly comes up on this list,
and in most cases it turns out they use the Akamai CDN.
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/doc/ListOfServicesBlockingTor#Akamai

They have some kind of Tor position on their blog:
https://blogs.akamai.com/2015/08/q2-soti-security-preview-tor-pros-and-cons.html
but the full text of it is pay(?)/registration-walled.

-- 
With respect,
Roman
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