Bad Web design vs Just Plain Ridiculous Web design
If you visit the Guinness website, they first ask you what country you’re from. It’s not even necessary, since they can actually figure this out based on your IP address.
But the fun only starts there. After the more expected choices, there’s a series of hyphens then an alphabetical list, starting with Afghanistan. Most of the time there’s no reason to be honest with this sort of question (marketing demographics, bah) I went with Afghanistan.
The result was better than the fact they even ask:
SORRY Sorry, we are unable to allow you access to our website due to regulations in your country of access Please leave the GUINNESS® website »
The “Please leave” line is a link to Google. A little script would let you put together a list of all the countries they believe aren’t allowing access to their site. Wonder how they keep track of laws and regulations for every country on the planet?
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While this sounds about like the “I’m an adult” butten for Porn sites. There is also the proxy issue. I’ve know a guy who set up squid on his systems before he was going to a country that might limit his access to sites. While he was there, he just set his proxy to his proxy server in the USA anway he went. So looking up the IP number might be wrong.
Comment by sven — May 1, 2006 @ 20:52 GMT