A Sea Of Red

On many of the pages I am looking for, I am getting this error:

HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden
You do not have permission to access the document or program you requested.

This is different from the blocking message from the filter. Is anyone else having issues like this?

no, but while we're asking these questions.... I clicked on the link to a youtube video once and it told me it was blocked. I don't think they've gone ahead and blocked the site, so does the filter block individual videos that it doesn't approve of? That seems pretty fancy if so.

LUconn wrote:no, but while we're asking these questions.... I clicked on the link to a youtube video once and it told me it was blocked. I don't think they've gone ahead and blocked the site, so does the filter block individual videos that it doesn't approve of? That seems pretty fancy if so.

Unbelievably, yes, it does appear that the filter blocks individual videos. I don't know how that company has time for such things since I don't think we upload any information back to them. So far as I know, we just download their URL database. I think I would hate working for them.

Some videos are marked as "adult content" (like ones with a crapload of cussing - some of the Kanye flipping out on MTV, etc) and I'd imagine those are the ones blocked.

Fumblerooskies wrote:On many of the pages I am looking for, I am getting this error:

HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden
You do not have permission to access the document or program you requested.

This is different from the blocking message from the filter. Is anyone else having issues like this?

Different parts of campus are seeing this error at different times. Google, for whatever reason, sees a lot of traffic coming from one IP address and thinks it's a spammer, a bot or a virus, so they block it. Then they put up a little CAPTCHA text box saying "Prove you're not a bot by typing this...", only the captcha doesn't work. We've been trying to contact them since the start of the semester about this, but you wouldn't believe how hard it is to get them to help. All we've been able to get out of them so far is pretty much "tough luck". You'd think they'd be a little more responsive to a university.

ooohhhh, I got that for like an entire day once. I didn't know what was going on so I just went to yahoo. I thought I had just typed in a search that matched something a spammer might type.

Yahoo has some of the same issues, I believe. I've tried a few times to do a search and got errors.

Yes, Yahoo! and Google appear to be using the same blacklist when determining traffic. I'm not sure what they're up to as it seems to be a pretty faulty list.

If you can't search with either of those, try dogpile.com or (if you absolutely have to) live.com.

It seems whenever this happens, I go to GoodSearch.com, & never have a problem. If you want to, you can benefit the Coast Guard Auxiliary (which I serve in) by choosing them. See photo.