Geo-blocking
Geo-blocking is the practice by which a website restricts or adapts its content based on a visitor's detected geographic location. When looking at what is geoblocking, think of an airport border checkpoint: officers check the issuing country on your passport before deciding which terminal you go to. Online, web servers and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) compare a visitor's IP address against commercial geolocation databases (such as MaxMind) to estimate their country, state, or city, then serve the version of the page intended for that region.
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