Tell HN: Blocked by Phind.com with Outside US IP

5 pointswanderingmind4 comments

Over the past few days I have been using Phind.com as the default Firefox search engine which was providing excellent search results. However, today my IP was blocked and banned. Just a reminder when using new shiny tools, you can be blocked from access.

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I have no prob with outside US IPs (even with several different VPN)

I suspect they block you since you are using it as a default: I did it too but realized is a total waste of (their) cpu and (their) money to use it for dumb queries, so I removed it as a default and use is only when I do really need it's (great) results

If I am seeing it correctly my advice for Phind will be to communicate/educate users :)

They promote setting it as default: https://www.phind.com/default

omg, so I am totally wrong :)

Founder here, apologies this happened. Please email me at michael@phind.com with your IP and I'll take a look.

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