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[3437]

Hello everyone.

I've been looking around on FTT for a while now.But in the last 8 weeks almost anything tobacco related (on the internet) has been restricted,I'm not sure if it's just my network or if it's something to do with this country,but if it was due to age restriction,it would show & why now suddenly after all these years.
This summer,more tobacco & tobacco related products were banned,so I think I know where this is headed.

The websites that have been blocked are anything to do with the study of tobacco,growing it,buying it (including WLT.com) & buying seeds.I'm surprised I'm still able to see this forum,I need some help & I thought I better get cracking and ask the questions before this forum is blocked too.Hopefully someone can help.

I would like to have a grow blog & share some pics of all that I'm doing,but again I don't know how long it will be until this place also becomes blocked.I need some help with the last part of the ageing process.Should I just post a thread in the relevant section & ask the question?.

Thanks.

 

[Alpine]

Welcome to FTT.
Search the FAQ of the forum and you’ll find some answers to your questions. If not, just ask: lots of nice folks here!

pier

 

[Jb00]

Hello everyone.

I've been looking around on FTT for a while now.But in the last 8 weeks almost anything tobacco related (on the internet) has been restricted,I'm not sure if it's just my network or if it's something to do with this country,but if it was due to age restriction,it would show & why now suddenly after all these years.
This summer,more tobacco & tobacco related products were banned,so I think I know where this is headed.

The websites that have been blocked are anything to do with the study of tobacco,growing it,buying it (including WLT.com) & buying seeds.I'm surprised I'm still able to see this forum,I need some help & I thought I better get cracking and ask the questions before this forum is blocked too.Hopefully someone can help.

I would like to have a grow blog & share some pics of all that I'm doing,but again I don't know how long it will be until this place also becomes blocked.I need some help with the last part of the ageing process.Should I just post a thread in the relevant section & ask the question?.

Thanks.

Welcome!

if you know what strains you plan to grow, you can use the search feature to find specific curing arrangements for the different types.

Such as
Virginia: flue cured
burley/ Maryland: air cured
Cigar leaf: kilned
Perique: air cured and pressed
Black cavendish: steamed

 

[MarcL]

Welcome to Fair Trade Tobacco. Ask any thing.

 

[Knucklehead]

Welcome. Thanks for joining us.
Why would an age restriction prevent you from viewing tobacco websites?

 

[Moth]

This summer,more tobacco & tobacco related products were banned

What do you mean? I'm not aware (although, not been looking) about things being banned here?
Also, who's your internet provider?
If you are getting content blocks, look into usong a free VPN service (I think windscribe gives a few gigs a month at a decent web browsing speed. Don't expect to stream films on it)
Or install Tor.
Fyi: I have not experienced internet content blocks and am in England

 

[Radagast]

Hi!

 

[POGreen]

Welcome to the club and thank u for joining us !

 

[3437]

Welcome!

if you know what strains you plan to grow, you can use the search feature to find specific curing arrangements for the different types.

Such as
Virginia: flue cured
burley/ Maryland: air cured
Cigar leaf: kilned
Perique: air cured and pressed
Black cavendish: steamed

Thanks.I've been growing VBright leaf,Kentucky & a greek variety for a while 4/5 years,the kentucky was air cured & the other 2 were sun cured.I had them all in a box waiting to be aged in a chamber.I'll start up a thread explaining everything.Thanks for your reply.

 

[3437]

Welcome. Thanks for joining us.
Why would an age restriction prevent you from viewing tobacco websites?

I'm not sure,this happened this summer.Even a shop that sells cigs is blocked (small shops not corporations).The local tobacconist website is now blocked too.
Some websites will show a message from the network saying "prove your age",but this is different,it's just an error page .I'll take a screen shot & post it.
At the top of this page it says "shop now" WLT.com,I can't look on that now,a few months ago I could.

 

[3437]

What do you mean? I'm not aware (although, not been looking) about things being banned here?
Also, who's your internet provider?
If you are getting content blocks, look into usong a free VPN service (I think windscribe gives a few gigs a month at a decent web browsing speed. Don't expect to stream films on it)
Or install Tor.
Fyi: I have not experienced internet content blocks and am in England

Any flavoured tobacco,filters & papers and menthol cigarettes and a huge price increase.Gone 20th may.It was on the tv.
3 years ago 10 packs were banned.

The internet provider is EE.I will give VPN or tor a go.

Can you go on WLT.com & northwoodseed.com without tor or something like that?.Thanks

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Apparently, in the UK there is no rule restricting tobacco websites. It is legal and possible for a service provider to limit content. It may be your service provider. To test this, I recommend connecting to a different service, whether it's someone else's WiFi, a different cell carrier, etc, and seeing if you can now see the websites that you couldn't access in the normal way.

 

[deluxestogie]

Or just try inserting Google's DNS server into your internet settings (8.8.8.8).

 

[Moth]

Cripes that passed me by!

A ban on the sale of cigarettes with a characterising flavour, including menthol, was part of the revised European Tobacco Products Directive (EUTPD) (2014), which has been written into UK law and came into force in May 2016. 19 To allow manufacturers and retailers a transitional period to prepare for the ban, implementation of the ban on flavours was delayed until May 2020

I tried a few sites at work, home and mobile . I think you / your family may have a child filter or content filter enabled. No uk wide conspiracy. Can you just disable it? Just ask te ISP

 

[plantdude]

It might be something as simple as the browser settings. Try a different browser like google based startpage (formerly known as ixquick). Try www.startpage.com, go to settings. Scroll down to privacy filters and turn off "video family filter". Scroll down a little further to where it says "Web/picture family filter" and select "do not filter my results" and hit save. You can also pick regional or international servers if you want. Be careful what you search for since all your "family friendly" filters will be turned off on the browser. This will let you know if it's just a browser setting issue anyway. If that doesn't work your problem is probably at the ISP level or higher.

 

[3437]

Thanks for all the help!.
I've tried with different web browsers & the same thing happens.Today I tried with tor and I got a strange message;

there's no option to verify that I'm not a robot.I can't click on "verify".

There are child filters on but it's never affected tobacco websites.Why now suddenly after all these years?And if it was an age restricted website it would say so coming from the internet provider with the option to put in credit card details to prove you aren't under age.
This is the other message that comes using google or bing,no options at all just completely restricted.

 

[Moth]

There are child filters on but it's never affected tobacco websites.Why now suddenly after all these years

Who knows what goes on in the minds of people who write child safety filters. Either way, turn them off or ask the internet owner to, or vpn or live with it. Sorry dude.
And do a virus check. The message about suspicious activity could be just that

 

[plantdude]

Thanks for all the help!.
I've tried with different web browsers & the same thing happens.Today I tried with tor and I got a strange message;

View attachment 32812 there's no option to verify that I'm not a robot.I can't click on "verify".

There are child filters on but it's never affected tobacco websites.Why now suddenly after all these years?And if it was an age restricted website it would say so coming from the internet provider with the option to put in credit card details to prove you aren't under age.
View attachment 32814 This is the other message that comes using google or bing,no options at all just completely restricted.

If it's asking for credit card details that should be a a big red flag.

 

[3437]

Who knows what goes on in the minds of people who write child safety filters. Either way, turn them off or ask the internet owner to, or vpn or live with it. Sorry dude.
And do a virus check. The message about suspicious activity could be just that

The only way to get the filter off is by putting the credit card details in online or going into their shop (the shops still aren't open since April) .But that wouldn't make a difference because if it was a child filter problem,tor would get around that.The child filter does still work,this is what it looks like when a website is classed as "adult content";

the pic with WLT doesn't even have the option to prove your age,so it's not to do with the child lock.

Thanks for clarifying that it's not a UK problem,but I would still like to know what's going on.I think I'm cursed!.

And the virus check,I run linux & I've never used a virus check (I didn't know there was virus's that affect linux),I'll see what I can find.
Thanks for all your help.

 

[3437]

If it's asking for credit card details that should be a a big red flag.

I would never put that in,but it is coming from the network.