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Three censored change.org???

They are blocking change . org for me too. Quite a few websites are unnecessarily blocked by Three, seemingly every archery site is blocked by them as well.
 
Would not surprise me, it's glitchy and randomly blocks "safe" sites by interfering with the SSL handshake. My connection is getting timeouts on YouTube these days, but only when watching people looking into COVID vaccines and lockdowns. One example was Andrew Bridgen MP and his speech to an empty "Parliament", with only about 6 people there, who had to be! The video seems to have gone now completely. Even the right of an MP to address Parliment being blocked and censored online!! Disgusting.
 
Just tried to login to the three app on my phone, while connected to 3's Internet it wouldn't let me and I had to change to voxi 4g on my phone to login, 😂
 
I found this when I was with Three until recently. For my first few months, I didn't bother to get the "adult" filter removed as I don't want to visit "adult" sites, but I found it was blocking various random things and causing sporadic connection problems like the ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR mentioned above. Eventually, I used the automated credit card method to get it taken off.

It seemed odd that it was in place in the first place, given that you have to be 18+ to take out a contract, and even odder that you have to use a credit card to get it taken off. My current provider, Voxi, has a setting in the control panel with no credit card or ID required to disable the block.
Virgin is also like this, it supprised me there was no verification needed. Lebara use Yoti face scanning which is quite creepy!!
 
I just switch my VPN on when I want to get around it, seems such overkill on Three's part. I get blocking certain sites but so many are falsely included in the ban, like why ban archery sites? All the sites have to verify the age of their customers anyway so it just seems silly to block them. It's not like knife dealers, I doubt London street gangs are going to be walking around with compound bows.
 
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Just get it turned off. I didn't do it for a while because I don't want to visit porn sites, and I didn't want to phone someone up and say "hi, can you unblock the porn" because it's embarrassing. But given that whatever filtering they have in place is causing all sorts of other problems, and the poster above says it can be done via live chat, there doesn't seem to be any reason for an individual user over 18 to keep the block in place.
 
Just get it turned off. I didn't do it for a while because I don't want to visit porn sites, and I didn't want to phone someone up and say "hi, can you unblock the porn" because it's embarrassing. But given that whatever filtering they have in place is causing all sorts of other problems, and the poster above says it can be done via live chat, there doesn't seem to be any reason for an individual user over 18 to keep the block in place.
agreed, im on a business plan and theres no option but to phone them which is super awkward. Also, they're doing a system upgrade for their business customers so no one can do anything account related such as the latter until Monday.
 
Attempted to visit change.org yesterday and found I was unable to do anything despite allowed access on a previous Three unlimited everything retail sim in the router which did not have the adult filter removed. Now have a business sim or two. Tried a phone with a scancomm Three data sim as sim2 (I did request the filter lifted on that when I took it out) and found I could also not access change.org despite the filter being supposedly removed.
Vodafone/Lebara sim was good in the other handset.

Online chat with Three and filter lifted on the business sims, router reset and all is good. Will check the other one later.
An email to scancomm to follow as well in case the other half runs into issues later.
 
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The other problem I used to have endlessly with Three was CAPTCHAs, primarily on Google. About 50% of the time when I searched for something, I'd have to go through the process of clicking all the fire hydrants or whatever. They must be using some absolutely filthy IPs from somewhere, or their filtering is making the connection look dodgy from Google's side. On Voda, I've not had the issue at all.
 
The other problem I used to have endlessly with Three was CAPTCHAs, primarily on Google. About 50% of the time when I searched for something, I'd have to go through the process of clicking all the fire hydrants or whatever. They must be using some absolutely filthy IPs from somewhere, or their filtering is making the connection look dodgy from Google's side. On Voda, I've not had the issue at all.
I'm gonna blame Google on this one. Don't care about "filthy" IPs. We're a zillion people behind a CGNAT, same with Vodafone.
Many times I'm just in need of a quick google search, but have to complete their fsckin captchas instead. Hope OpenAI eats them alive.
 
I'm gonna blame Google on this one. Don't care about "filthy" IPs. We're a zillion people behind a CGNAT, same with Vodafone.
Many times I'm just in need of a quick google search, but have to complete their fsckin captchas instead. Hope OpenAI eats them alive.
Yeah, I've had lots of captchas on various mobile networks due to the CG-NAT. From memory, I don't think it happens (or happens as much) if you're logged into a Google account, but I appreciate not everyone wants to do that.
 
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