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whats the deal with this link?

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  • 11-03-2005 3:09am
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    okden
    Registered Users Posts: 260 ✭✭


    http://www.sho.com/

    We at Showtime Online express our apologies; however, these pages are intended for access only from within the United States.

    whats the explaination, tech term and work around for this

    I don't like getting google.co.uk either when i type in google.com
    i cant remember if that only started when i went NTLBB
    is it because our proxy is just a cache of an englerland proxy or are they filtering based on ip addys :confused:


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    ranDom_tAsk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 888 ✭✭✭ranDom_tAsk


    I'd guess filtering based on ip addys .


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    fatherdougalmag
    Registered Users Posts: 1,391 ✭✭✭fatherdougalmag


    I'm a bit mystified by the Google thing too. I'm on NTL BB too and have noticed this. But then I was setting up another machine which I hooked up to my router (and consequently to NTL's BB) and when I visited google.com it redirected to google.ie so methinks it's a combination of recent NTL network problems and a fubar'ed Google preferences cookie.


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    Moriarty
    Registered Users Posts: 6,007 ✭✭✭Moriarty


    Moved over to Nets/Comms.


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    okden
    Registered Users Posts: 260 ✭✭okden


    Moriarty wrote:
    Moved over to Nets/Comms.

    i take that as another vote for ip filtering :p


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    optiplexgx270
    Registered Users Posts: 2,502 ✭✭✭optiplexgx270


    use an online browser based in the US


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    Bodan
    Registered Users Posts: 462 ✭✭Bodan


    http://www.sho.com/

    to get to this site you need to go through a US proxy . So the host thinks your from inside the states.


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    vibe666
    Registered Users Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    it's called localisation (or with a 'Z' if you're American).

    google know that people in ireland are most likely to want a page that offers local services (is in 'search pages from Ireland'), so as they know that certain IP ranges are in certain countries they redirect requests to localised pages.

    also, people use it to prevent people in places other than their intended audience from accessing pages they don't want them to see.


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