Website geoblocking is not that widespread, study finds

guest · Nov 19, 2018

Website geoblocking is not that widespread, study finds
November 19, 2018
https://www.zdnet.com/article/website-geoblocking-is-not-that-widespread-study-finds/

Scans of the Alexa Top 10,000 and Top 1 Million sites have unveiled low percentages of websites engaging in geoblocking.
More precisely, researchers found that only 596 websites from the Alexa Top 10,000 list of sites engaged in geoblocking (also known as geofencing), and only 1,595 sites did so from the Alexa Top 1 Million.

In both results sets, the Alexa Top 10,000 and Top 1 Million, researchers said that shopping websites were the ones that usually enforced the most geoblocks, followed by business domains, and IT-related sites.

More details about this research are available in an academic paper entitled "403 Forbidden: A Global View of Geoblocking" [1, 2], presented last month at the 18th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC '18), held in Boston, USA.
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"403 Forbidden: A Global View of CDN Geoblocking" (PDF): https://ensa.fi/papers/403forbidden_imc18.pdf

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