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Vimeo - You have been temporarily blocked

Is anyone experiencing same issue with Vimeo? Vimeo is blocked in my country, but I have been able to watch it through VPN. This just start suddenly out of nowhere today. If I go directly to vimeo.com, I got following message:

Pardon the inconvenience, but our servers have detected a high number of errors from your connection. To continue, please verify that you are a human:

There is a google recaptcha checkbox and when I checked them, then it shows this message:

Thank you! One moment... You have been unblocked, but it can take up to a minute for our servers to update and let you back in. This page will forward you along automatically soon. Sorry for the inconvenience.

But it just stuck there, and when I check my network tab, it shows multiple 403 error from get requests to https://vimeo.com/_pingback

From googling around, it seems the exact same thing happened to someone else back in 2013 and it only got resolved by contacting Vimeo directly from twitter..

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codelyftlab's avatar

Its happend to me too while im watching mysql design.

z_r's avatar

me too

Hi @JeffreyWay Is there any other way to watch or download the videos, not through vimeo ?

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I've been in contact with @VimeoStaff on Twitter and they said they are blocking some cloud providers due to widespread malicious traffic. The CAPTCHA supposedly able to filter out the legitimate traffic but currently there is an issue on their end.

I'm in the process of white listing my VPN IP but they can't promise if they were able to do it, especially for IP from shared hosting. It would be great if we have alternative way to watch Laracasts video @jeffreyway.

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MattMWag's avatar

Yeah - Laracasts is currently useless to me while Vimeo is playing up like this :(

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@hyurizahard It took awhile, but my VPN IP has finally been white listed by Vimeo. Changing DNS to 1.1.1.1 used to work for me years ago, but eventually it got blocked too country wide.

mohammad0's avatar

Hi, I have the same problem and searched too much but didn't understand how to fix this problem. I use Psiphone3 because vimeo is block in my country. does anybody know how to fix this?

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@mohammad0 unfortunately if your problem is identical with mine, the only way is to contact Vimeo directly and try to white list your VPN IP. As I mentioned before, Vimeo can't promise they can because of the nature of VPN services. They white listed mine most likely because my VPN is private that I setup myself on my cloud server.

mohammad0's avatar

Thank you @rouge847 .

But I solved my problem with another way. If anybody else has my problem and use Psiphone change "connect via" part to "Japan", it works with me.

I hope my comment help others.

sincerely yours Mohammad

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