Tell HN: Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) is now blocking Tor

429 points

4 years ago

I tried visiting Stack Exchange today using Tor Browser, and apparently my IP is blocked. I tried with several different circuits, and they're all blocked. Several people on IRC confirmed this as well.

I tried to contact them by e-mail and they didn't bother to respond, as is par for the course these days.

The full error message:

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  Access Denied

  This IP address (185.220.101.37) has been blocked from access to our services. If you believe this to be in error, please contact us at [email protected].

  When contacting us, please include the following information in the email:

  Method: block

  XID: 820408900-HHN

  IP: 185.220.101.37

  X-Forwarded-For: 185.220.101.37

  User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 _Windows NT 10.0; rv:91.0_ Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0

  Reason: Blocked.

  Time: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 08:11:50 GMT

  URL: tor.stackexchange.com/

  Browser Location: https://tor.stackexchange.com/

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