Ask HN: Distrowatch.com returns HTTP/403? Did they shutdown?

2 points by plagiat0r 1y ago ↗ HN

Not sure if anybody noticed that distrowatch.com returns 403 forbidden. I'm connecting from ASN 6830, with a mobile browser (Samsung Android tablet), normal end user ISP network over IPv6. Did they misconfigured, or shut down all operations?

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yawpitch 1y ago ↗

Working fine for me, so no they have not shut down.

plagiat0r 1y ago ↗

Thanks. It seems they started to filter UserAgents, because it indeed renders with Firefox Android, but not with Samsung browser, filtered UA is:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/27.0 Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36