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Anybody know why I randomly get a "403 forbidden" error here? (Original Post)
TreasonousBastard
Jul 2023
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dweller
(26,452 posts)1. Everyone gets them occasionally
Just reload the page, usually it clears
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TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)2. It happens every day or so and I have to load a different browser ..
and login again.
dweller
(26,452 posts)3. I use Firefox
and like I said, reload usually clears it
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TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)4. I was using Opera, and it opened up fine on Firefox and Brave....
Just another online mystery.
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At least it's easy to get back on, some sites destroy everything and I have to shut it all down. This time I was in a 6 paragraph op and lost everything.
usonian
(17,268 posts)5. I sometimes suspect that certain Unicode characters give the DU code fits.
Not a scientific study.
Or maybe cloudflare is having the fits.
Just throwing that out there as a suspicion to be proven or disproven.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)6. I suspect along the same lines, just can't prove it.
Yonnie3
(18,594 posts)7. I agee without a lot of research too
It happens when I paste a title and content from a website. Typing in the title manually fixed it in each instance.
Not enough data to show it is not just a coincidence.