Site blocked?

[eedgtraveller]

I'm trying to access a site that I have regularly accessed daily for at least the past 5 years, and for some reason as of today access is blocked.  I connect using a EE 5g Hub.  The site is a French news channel https://www.tf1.fr.  I always access it from a saved bookmark in either Chrome or Firefox.  The error I'm getting is the following:

[XRaySpeX]

Nor can I over EE fixed BB nor over O2 mobile network. You sure the link is valid and allowed from outside France. Whatever it is it's the site refusing it & nowt to do with what network you're coming from.

You sure it's not https://www.rfi.fr/ ?

[eedgtraveller]

Thanks for your reply.  Yes I'm sure it isn't You sure it's not https://www.rfi.fr/ .

The site I'm trying to access is TF1 the French equivalent to the BBC here. I watch the news on it  almost every day.

[Schockwave]

@eedgtraveller , I have just tried your link, and it has worked for me, no problem.

[eedgtraveller]

Thanks for testing. Very odd as it is still blocked for me. Same error message.

[Schockwave]

@eedgtraveller , have you tried clearing your cache to see if that makes a difference?

[eedgtraveller]

@Schockwave yes I have tried clearing the cache as well as a full restart of both my laptop as well as my router and no help. I suppose it could be a temporary network routing issue somewhere. 

[Northerner]

It works over VPN in the EU but as some of the content is not available in the UK (licenced )then the site is not available via UK isps. 

Thanks 

[eedgtraveller]

@Northerner could you explain what you mean by "the site is not available via UK isps."?  I have accessed it and watched the news on this site literally every day for the past 5 years. 

I don't understand why it's not available all of a sudden.

[eedgtraveller · Accepted solution]

OK good news - @XRaySpeX @Schockwave @Northerner , access to the site is back up again.  Really strange that it would be blocked like that for a couple of days?  But it is working!