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https://web.archive.org/web/20250926115407/https://www.histo...

It's broken in the UK. Gives a 302 redirect to https://www.history.co.uk/

And VPN via Sweden, redirects to https://www.historytv.se

I don't think they want international visitors.

Same deal in Germany - straight to the www.history.de homepage.

Loads fine for me.

I'm guessing this is a complaint about a full-screen ad that history.com is running. I can't confirm because I have like 5 different layers of ad-blocking that I'm not going to turn off to check this, but here's what the page looks like from a Finnish server: https://pikwy.com/web/68dd4ace6c4fe212122bdfe2

It seems that history.com is geo-blocked. You can see it if you are in USA, not if you are in Europe or other countries.

Oh that's crazy, you're right: https://support.history.com/hc/en-us/articles/4411049949079-...

I wish there was a way for The Internet to eminent domain this URL from the History Channel, they clearly don't deserve it.

Archive for anyone interested: https://archive.is/2xmAE