Access Denied “You don’t have permission to access …”

Sometimes you can get the following error while trying to access some sites.

Access Denied while trying to access website

It looks like these errors are from Akamai or other CDN’s

Why is Akamai blocking me?

https://myakamai.force.com/customers/s/article/Why-is-Akamai-blocking-me

Why is Akamai blocking me? Part 2 & 3

https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/article/Why-is-Akamai-Blocking-Me-Part-2-Penetration-Testers-Bug-Bounty-Hunters-and-Security-Researchers

https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/article/Why-is-Akamai-Blocking-Me-Part-3-Partners-Performing-Web-Scraping-Activity

Client Reputation Lookup

https://www.akamai.com/us/en/clientrep-lookup/

Akamai says they don’t block you, but the site can use tools and policies which could block you. To resolve the issue you should contact the web site owner and see if you can get unblocked and potentially get more details.

You can try doing a whois on the website domain to find the contact email.

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