Yahoo! Auctions Japan is now geoblocked!

MusicBrainz
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FWIW, here’s a tool to preview a website from different countries: Geo Browse | Free Country Screenshot Tool.
It could be used to check geoblock and maybe bypass that, though it only provides a screenshot.
Ironically it’s also a website providing geoblock services.

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I have finally written a very simple user script that redirects you from Yahoo! JAPAN Auctions page to Buyee proxy equivalent page:

yahuoku_REDIRECT-TO-BUYEE.user.js (install with Raw button, hidden in “…” menu on mobile)

location.assign(location.pathname.replace(/^\/jp/, "https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/"));

You should of course only install this script if you are geo-blocked (as me, in Europe).

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It’s not just Yahoo auctions, it’s all Yahoo Japan sites. (Although they actually shut down the Geocities equivalent pretty recently.)

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Yes indeed, but I only use https://mail.yahoo.co.jp (which is still open to us) and Auctions (for their photos):

  1. Search: ajico site:auctions.yahoo.co.jp at DuckDuckGo
    Vivaldi custom search ヤフオク！ (alias yo): https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s+site%3Aauctions.yahoo.co.jp%2Fjp%2Fauction%2F&kp=1&t=vivaldi&iax=images&ia=images
  2. Bypass blocking: yahuoku_REDIRECT-TO-BUYEE.user.js

:wink:

I don’t need Yahoo! News or anything else.

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It’s actually been three years now.

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And that’s pretty recent, indeed, to me too. :wink:

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