Pages blocked? Here's the solution. List

[StylishSpecter 0]

Okay, I've now responded to a few posts here, and the question is always the same: “Site XY is blocked, how do I solve the problem?” I wanted to offer a solution here that is so simple that anyone can try it themselves. All you have to do is choose a different server. Yes, it's annoying in some cases, but it helps in all cases. Maybe we can create a list here together with pages that are blocked and their servers that are not yet blocked. That way, others can save themselves the search for the golden piggy.

I'll start:

Reddit: Server UK Arion, works great.

YouTube: Server Germany Fuyue, works great.

[Tech Jedi Alex 1501]

On 11/12/2025 at 11:08 AM, StylishSpecter said:

Maybe we can create a list here together with pages that are blocked and their servers that are not yet blocked

You succinctly summarized the Blocked websites warning forum. 
But if you want to summarize all those threads here and keep it updated, this sure will help other users.

[StylishSpecter 0]

12 hours ago, Tech Jedi Alex said:

You succinctly summarized the Blocked websites warning forum. 

Yes, I've seen that many people are still asking questions even though there is a thread on this topic. But I have to be honest, I also found the instructions very confusing, especially the point: “Try checking out the AirVPN Route Checking tool. Put the name of the website, such as www.netflix.com, into the search field. Click search. Then refresh the page and look at the HTTP column.”

 

That is simply factually incorrect. I don't know if something has changed in the technology in recent years or why it says that. But the fact is, if you look at www.reddit.com, for example, according to the list with the route checker tool, not a single server would work with Reddit. Which is wrong, as mentioned above, Server Arion works fine.

 

I also thought it would help people to create a list like this here, but it seems to me that no one is really interested in participating, or maybe it's just because the guys at AIRVPN have such a great infrastructure that hardly any websites are blocked. That's why I haven't been able to expand the list yet. So far, I haven't come across any sites that I visit daily that I couldn't access with my standard server.

[Tech Jedi Alex 1501]

3 minutes ago, StylishSpecter said:

That is simply factually incorrect. I don't know if something has changed in the technology in recent years or why it says that. But the fact is, if you look at www.reddit.com, for example, according to the list with the route checker tool, not a single server would work with Reddit. Which is wrong, as mentioned above, Server Arion works fine. 

I think you will find after some more experimentation that, if you type in www.reddit.com, the HTTP code you get back is actually 302, a redirect to HTTPS. Which is correct and corresponds with best practices for HTTPS redirects. Typing in https://www.reddit.com instead will yield the correct result. It doesn't help that the route checker deems those redirects as errors, too, and so colors the cell's background red, so I agree in so far as one of two things could happen to remedy this:

1. The background color should be yellow to indicate a redirect which doesn't have to be a block. But that tool is actually there to tell you "yep, works" or "nope, not from here" at a glance. Yellow as in "meh, maybe, check yourself" is beyond unhelpful.
2. If a web server returns a 301 or 302, follow the Location header once to cater to the common case of a HTTPS redirect and print the result for that new URL. But this could produce false positive results: If a website viewed from the server returns a 302 to a webpage basically saying "sorry, you've been blocked", that webpage will of course have a green 200 return code.

17 minutes ago, StylishSpecter said:

or maybe it's just because the guys at AIRVPN have such a great infrastructure that hardly any websites are blocked

What a sweet dream.
 

18 minutes ago, StylishSpecter said:

So far, I haven't come across any sites that I visit daily that I couldn't access with my standard server. 

Check out OneDrive/Outlook, Netflix, Hulu, BBC iPlayer, etc. and maybe all those sites sitting behind a Sucuri WAF.

What you could do is to keep track of the Blocked websites warning forum and update your list with every new thread and post. It'd be a help, but would demand work from you alone, continuously even. But if effective, such as thread could be pinned in this forum for visibility and be a boon for the community, I'm sure.

[StylishSpecter 0]

3 hours ago, Tech Jedi Alex said:

It doesn't help that the route checker deems those redirects as errors, too, and so colors the cell's background red, so I agree in so far as one of two things could happen to remedy this:

1. The background color should be yellow to indicate a redirect which doesn't have to be a block. But that tool is actually there to tell you "yep, works" or "nope, not from here" at a glance. Yellow as in "meh, maybe, check yourself" is beyond unhelpful.
2. If a web server returns a 301 or 302, follow the Location header once to cater to the common case of a HTTPS redirect and print the result for that new URL. But this could produce false positive results: If a website viewed from the server returns a 302 to a webpage basically saying "sorry, you've been blocked", that webpage will of course have a green 200 return code.

 

I agree, how is the average consumer supposed to know that 302 means https but not http? I also think that a revision would be very good. It would be great if the tool simply requested both automatically, just like the browser does when you enter reddit.com and the tool looks directly at http or https and then delivers the correct result. I think that would be the easiest way and clear for everyone to understand.

 

3 hours ago, Tech Jedi Alex said:

Check out OneDrive/Outlook, Netflix, Hulu, BBC iPlayer, etc. and maybe all those sites sitting behind a Sucuri WAF.

What you could do is to keep track of the Blocked websites warning forum and update your list with every new thread and post. It'd be a help, but would demand work from you alone, continuously even. But if effective, such as thread could be pinned in this forum for visibility and be a boon for the community, I'm sure.

I just tested it, and I don't know why, but I have no problems at all with the Fuyue server in Germany. On the contrary, as I type this, I'm watching Designated Survivor on Netflix. Well, BBC iPlayer puts a geo-block on me, which is okay, but the BBC player via Amazon Prime Video works great. Yes, in order for the post to be pinned at the top, I would have to significantly expand the list, and without the help of this community, that would be a Herculean task. That's why I thought it would be child's play if everyone who has problems accessing a website simply tested which server works and wrote a quick note here saying “Page xy works with ServerXY.” Just like they used to do in forums, that would be great. Until the tool works for dummies and you don't need a degree in technology, a simple list where you can look things up would be great. I mean, as I'm typing this, there are 37,000 people online. If everyone named just one site, we would already have a list of 37,000 different sites and servers.