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[inigyou]

> 403. That’s an error.

> Your client does not have permission to get URL /search/docs/essentials/spam-policies from this server. That’s all we know.

What a utopia.

[ButlerianJihad → inigyou]

You keep reporting "403 Forbidden" errors from disparate websites but especially Google, and these are errors that other HN users are not having.

I do not believe that this is an accident. I suggest that you consider this is a "you problem", inigyou, and not the webmaster's fault.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49194606

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165757

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49145010

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49144842

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136992

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129572

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096143

[inigyou → ButlerianJihad]

Maybe an awful lot of websites have extremely broad blocklists and I want to raise awareness to this fact and shame anyone else who's thinking of implementing an extremely broad blocklist.

[zeratax → inigyou]

no offense but i dont know you and maybe you do belong on blocklists lol

[inigyou → zeratax]

I definitely don't deserve to know Google Search spam policies, clearly.