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searches blocked, message says "You don't have permission to access the requested URL on this server. Reference: 18.84e4317.1650916378.518b3b92"

I get this message on everything now. I visit the same websites all the time, can't get to them now. this is quite annoying!

searches blocked, message says "You don't have permission to access the requested URL on this server. Reference: 18.84e4317.1650916378.518b3b92" I get this message on everything now. I visit the same websites all the time, can't get to them now. this is quite annoying!

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b2bzzy said

"You don't have permission to access the requested URL on this server. Reference: 18.84e4317.1650916378.518b3b92"

This message is characteristic of a Web Application Firewall, a layer of protection large sites use to avoid denial of service attacks and other suspicious, bot-like traffic.

It can be based either on your IP address -- sometimes an address or range of addresses will be blocked temporarily -- or on unusual characteristics of your browsing requests. So you could:

  • if you are using a VPN or proxy, trying changing your server (exit node) to get a different IP address
  • if you have use any Firefox feature or add-on to modify requests -- for example, blocking more cookies than usual, suppressing the referring site header, modifying the user agent, etc. -- try setting those back to normal