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They appear to do deep packet inspection looking at the SNI and insert an invalid certificate from Allot, redirecting the connection to a very short "Vodafone can't show you this" website: https://pastebin.com/RHwPWBug

It appears to work with ESNI activated in Firefox. Interesting to see these techniques in use...

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> Por causas ajenas a Vodafone, esta web no esta disponible

"Due to causes independent on Vodafone, this website is not available".

How so? This is plain false. I bet they do not even inform their customers that the connectivity service they sell is endangered by Deep Packet Inspection.

Virgin Media give you a message for blocked porn, but not the VPNs they stop you accessing.

It's quite insidious - the VPN blocks are textbook government overreach.

If we ever have a written constitution in the UK we need rules stopping the government fucking about with this stuff (As it seems to be the entropic end-state of all policy to protect the children)

That just means the decision to block the site was made by someone outside of Vodafone. Assuming they face meaningful penalties for noncompliance, I wouldn't consider it false. But it would be nice if these kinds of messages identified who is to blame.

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