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As a European who constantly runs into the same "go away, foreigner" notices on US sites, I find this way funnier than I should.

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Yeah it's weird going to a site you expect to see blocked and seeing that it works just fine. Anyone have a screenshot of what it says to US visitors?

arn posted this screen below: http://imgur.com/BJJOs

In a way, you're still blocked from seeing US-only content. It's just that the US-only content is a region-blocking notice.

When I was still living in France, I used to rent a vps in the US, so I could tunnel my connections via ssh, and get access to those websites. Well this was not the main reason for my renting the vps (I hosted my website, and played around with it), but it was a nice bonus anyway..

Now having the vps inside the US has become useless to me, and I'm seriously considering moving it back to Europe, just in case..

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