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> Your provider (Microsoft Corporation) does not have access to this website. Contact the staff per electronic letter via support at macintosh.garden if you believe this to be a mistake or otherwise an error

What a dick move.

No, I don't work for MS corporation. I'm fucking using a cheap Azure VM instance running OpenSSH as a socks proxy. Otherwise, I would have to access it through my https-man-in-the-middle corporate firewall.

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I'm surprised you encounter few enough blocks for this to stand out. Scrapers and nuisance bots are rampant on cloud hosts, so lots of sites block their IPs.

Honestly, not that many. I have been blocked so far only on some video streaming platforms. Most of "normal" sites seem not to care.

> No, I don't work for MS corporation. I'm fucking using a cheap Azure VM instance running OpenSSH as a socks proxy. Otherwise, I would have to access it through my https-man-in-the-middle corporate firewall.

Download it on your personal machine then

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