If you’re not there, you see a message saying “Page not found” (with possible typos, like in French).
As I didn’t know, I had marked this URL as ended.
Which was later fixed by @osdt.de
Maybe we need a new system, with a list of sites that do geoblocking, to display a warning to editors who are about to remove those or mark those as ended?
As they don’t even say This page is visible only for this and that country, we could just blacklist these sites that do silent geoblocking, as they give us too much hassle.
You can assume any of the major streaming sites to apply geo based content access. That’s kind of mandatory for them since music licensing often works that way.
It’s a major pain for example for Harmony or similar tools. Sometimes you only get heavily butchered track lists on different locations.
It’s the first time I see this.
Or, if it’s not, it’s been such a while that I forgot.
As everyone doesn’t know and as they show things as if the page didn’t exist at all, showing a warning (only for a site list including Tidal) would save some of these URL from being removed or being marked as ended.
Tidal is available in France so I’d probably send them feedback about this issue. URLs which are not viewable for legal reasons should ideally use a more reasonable status code and a clear message facing the user.
Tidal still shows the title, which is how I usually tell if the link still works or not. open.qobuz.com is also geoblocked, so I prefer www.qobuz.com links instead.
Oh, it would be nice, indeed.
But please check out the OP example Tidal URL, it just says “Page not found” (in your language, with possible typos), but no album title nor artist name.
