Error 403 – unable to access Macintosh Garden anymore

[Elosha]

Good day,

Whatever I try (various cable ISPs or VPN), I am not able to access The Macintosh Garden anymore. Always getting a HTTP 403 error. I've seen it temporarily in the past, but now it is permanent since months.

I've read that it is Macintosh Garden's method of protecting against bots … but currently it's just preventing humans from accessing. And I've always been a very modest user.

Help please

 

[fogWraith]

Good day,

Whatever I try (various cable ISPs or VPN), I am not able to access The Macintosh Garden anymore. Always getting a HTTP 403 error. I've seen it temporarily in the past, but now it is permanent since months.

I've read that it is Macintosh Garden's method of protecting against bots … but currently it's just preventing humans from accessing. And I've always been a very modest user.

Help please

Please do send me a private message with more details.

 

[Elosha]

Solved! Reason: Accidentally getting on the blocklist, was fixed immediately. Thanks!

 

[misterg33]

@fogWraith -- Can you check to see if the garden is reachable when iCloud private relay is on?

 

[fogWraith]

@fogWraith -- Can you check to see if the garden is reachable when iCloud private relay is on?

I wouldn't know, I don't use it nor do I have any device using it outside of the network to test it properly - though I would suspect that it will be hit & miss depending on which relay you end up using.

 

[JDW]

Use of VPNs and Relays impacts other popular Mac sites like Macintouch too. Do a keyword search for "iCloud Private Relay" at the following URL:

https://www.macintouch.com/macintouch-faq/

I am not saying anything negative against VPNs and Relays. I honestly think they are important. I am just pointing out that Macintosh Garden is not totally unique in the way it behaves with some VPNs or Relays.