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>The owner of this website (www.lowtechmagazine.com) has banned your IP address (x.x.x.x).

Anyone else getting this? I'm just going to read it on archive.org but it seems weird. I'm coming from a Digital Ocean NYC IP

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Some sites block VPS's to mitigate bot abuse. Some just send you to endless captchas. Others block in haproxy. Some just 'ip route add blackhole ${ip}'

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