Now Broadband Provider Blocking This Site for Me

Many thanks ukheather. Not sure what to do about it, if anything, don't think it will be wise to disable anything. Guess I will just have to try entering comps and see if it will let me enter or block. All the best

cgoldring I emailed sky so you might want to do the same. Often it has to come from the sites admins or if lots report it wrongly blocked so not sure if they will do much

Many thanks, I will email customer services a NOW Broadband but they are not usually very quick at getting back if you have a problem so I will not hold my breath. I will let you know how I get on

cgoldring My email to NOW customer services bounced 'Undeliverable' so have now tried sky@notifications.contact.sky as it is the only email contact I could find. Probably not right. NOW live chat no longer available. Think it may be a lost cause, I will let you now. Good Luck

Was it resolved or were you able to do anything about it yourself. What a drag!!

cgoldring no, I'll have another go at sorting it when I've got more time.

Many thanks Tom

Yep that is what I said above that viglink is the site being blocked but it is blocked by a lot of providers now as it is symantec that blocks it.

I contacted sky who said it is symantec that they use and many other providers use that is blocking it

More people need to report it as wrongly blocked as otherwise they may not remove the block.

MySky@sky.uk is the email to report it to for sky.

Can't afford that lol

Yes I had been considering doing that, I managed to enter one competition, from the link on here, last night so I will see how it goes - trial and error for now. Good Luck

Doesn't work. It is the broadband provider blocking the website. That doesn't fix it.

ukheather Yes it does work. You've misunderstood. I mean go to the deal or competition website directly. It's hard to explain if you don't understand how the referral tracking works on here. VigLink acts as a middleman so when you click their link on here, they track it so Latest Deals can be paid their commission. It then automatically redirects to the website you are ultimately trying to get to eg. GreatCompetions.com. If you go to a web browser and go to GreatCompetitions.com directly, you are cutting out that middleman and therefore the problem. The only loss in that situation is for Latest Deals because your visit to the site is not tracked so they don't get their commission.

Dennab I do understand how it works and I have tried it on firefox but it didn't work.

Some links work now anyway as they tried to minimise the links that use viglink, but the ones that do use viglink you can't get around by opening in a new window/tab

ukheather You don't use viglink. You bypass them. That's my point so not sure you are understanding me. If you tell me a post that isn't working, I will send tell you the link to view it without viglink. It's not just a case of opening a new window / tab at all. It also has nothing to do with the browser or device.

Dennab if I can’t find one I will. have you found a link that is blocked by your isp that you managed to get work?

pits the isp blocking it and you can’t get around it by Different devices.

its the isp as you get a message saying “sky blocked this site” nothing to do with devices

ukheather You can get round the ISP blocking links as well if you use a VPN. Many have a free option up to a certain amount of data so you can just switch it on to visit blocked sites and off again when you don't need it. Windscribe is a good one with 10GB a month for free. That's plenty just to visit the odd blocked website.

before I thought you meant opening In a new tab or something which obv didn’t work, I miss read then.

but what I’m saying is some deals you have no idea what the link is though, i saw one yesterday was supposed to be a free meal so would have been a unique url. Going direct to the companies website doesnt help you find the deal in this case as it’s not shown on the website and must have been a special link which are often hidden from clear view unless you have the url.

as I said anyway latest deals have tried to avoid using viglink where possible to avoid the issue

you can’t always just go direct to a website to find the deal, but either way the site needs unlocking and the real fix is reporting it as false blocked which actually solves the issue

ukheather Yes indeed, fixing the underlying problem is better than a quick fix! Try the VPN option though if you need something for now and again. It's easy and fast once installed.

cgoldring Thank Kelsey. I think he tweaked things to avoid that Viglink website for now. While I'm here Kelsey, have you noticed mentioning a member inserts a <p> or something having the same effect recently on the app? Maybe it's intentional.

Dennab Thanks - certainly not intentional! Was surprisingly tricky to fix but think I managed it this weekend. Hopefully an updated version of the app will be available in app stores in the next few days (depends how long Apple and Google take to review updates at the moment!)

Kelsey Some of the problems that look simple seem to be the worst to fix in my experience! Thanks for sorting it though.

Many thanks. So far I have not had any problems. Stay safe

Kelsey I can now see the viglink.com website directly so the problem appears to have been fixed. Cheers.