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Yahoo Auctions Japan blocks access for European IPs
Thought this might interest some people. Still undecided whether it's just your run-of-the-mill Japanese discrimination against foreigners or them not being willing to comply with EU privacy laws. Probably the latter, though I'll admit I never felt welcome on Yafuoku, Rakuten and the likes even when speaking Japanese and when buying while in Japan. Anyway, this probably doesn't change much for those using proxy buyer services. Just that you might need another proxy or a VPN now to see the pages.
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Yeah, saw it yesterday when doing my daily checks for items. It's annoying as I now have to replace all the bookmarks on my desktop.
Official reason were the costs of complying with regulation and laws...which is rather bs. It's not difficult to comply, so the real reason might be incompetency or just not wanting to bother. Quote:
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Does anyone know how to see ended auctions now?
I don't think fromjapan, buyee, or others middlemen services have this feature on their engine. Free and secure VPN? |
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I don't know if it's related to the thread topic (I'm not in Europe) but is anyone else getting a lot of and constant page load errors on Yahoo which requires refreshing the page? Also happens on the Yahoo mobile app. I noticed it happening since the Sunday before last Sunday I think.
Just a wild guess but maybe the servers are deprioritising non Japanese traffic? I'll try a VPN later to see if that changes anything. |
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I use the Buyee site to buy on Yahoo Auction (luckily it still works!), and I often have to reload the page to see the photos of each auction, or all the photos of the same auction. It didn't happen before and it's a bit annoying.
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Using Buyee to browse YA and started having issues with loading photos several weeks ago too.
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For me, it seems like most of the page load errors and broken images issues aren't happening now.
On topic, what are our European users' experiences with browsing the Yahoo Auctions website? Still normal or has the IP blocks begun? |
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Begun already. I haven't been able to see any of the auction pages from around a month ago.
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That's incredibly saddening, as I used to browse the auctions. Buyee seems to not load images due to that, but ZenMarket seems to load them, so problem solved I guess?
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