I suspect this is unlikely to bother many people but I'm presently in Egypt and only able to access MHF by using a VPN. Without the VPN I get a red banner appearing that says Access Forbidden.

I'm aware that the Egyptian authorities are trying to block sites that are encouraging civil unrest but I doubt that MHF is one of those! The hotel appears to be blocking my preferred PPTP method for accessing my home VPN server so instead I am using OpenVPN, so it may be something the hotel is doing. Alternatively MHF may have decided not to allow Egyptians to access it's site?!

For what it's worth I can access most other sites without the VPN (Sky, Netflix etc excepted) but some are asking me to prove I'm human. I'm sure it's not an issue if it's only Egypt but it would be a shame if there's a problem with MHF that might prevent others in other countries accessing it.

Ha ha they have heard about your 'leanings' Peter. Isn't Egypt a dangerous place for tourists now?

Ray.

I think Cairo and some of the big cities are best avoided Ray but in Hurghada which is fine. It's the sun that's the biggest danger here - 36C again today!

Ooh errr, that is odd to say the least..... candy you arrange a trip to eg China to check there please ?

I wonder why that action appears to have been taken ? Presumably there may be some reason, but....

Maybe North Korea!

Although I don't post on it, I can access Fun without any problems so seemingly a MHF problem. Now that would be a surprise!

Just a thought, could it have anything to do with where VS is based ? I wonder if some-one has thought "Oh, it's American, block it!" Fun of course is BRITISH based so does not represent such a challenge.

Obviously, I do not know but am just wondering on this grey Sunday morning here.....

I have a friend who was invited to North Korea a couple of years ago to help the State and the manufacture of eye drops (!), she was NOT allowed to take any camera or phone with or without internet access into North Korea - they were securely looked after at the border, so you are unlikely to gain access to MHF or Fun or even Google in there..... or any other site except perhaps official North Korean run sites....

We use our friends internet connection when we stay with them in Turkey.....................we cannot access our local newspaper .

More importantly you cannot access Wikipedia.....................now that's "strong government"

Maybe it’s got something to do with the weapon ads when you enter via the old Motorhomefacts website.
Almost got myself an assault rifle on Friday but the seller didn’t post to the UK!

I think they've caught wind of the Brexit thread Peter!!

You could be right Jean. Maybe they object to some of the names that Boris Johnson is being called!

Thinking about it I suspect the blocking is happening wherever Verticalscope's servers are hosted, which is presumably in Canada. If the block was here in Egypt then I imagine the notification would be in Arabic as well possibly as English.