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link was blocked from be read when posted in ChatGPT prompt

By @IvanTheGeek
    2026-03-05 14:10:54.151Z

    posted a link in ChatGPT and it responded as:

    I wasn’t able to directly fetch the Talkyard page content itself (Talkyard blocks simple scraping),

    This is a Talkyard hosted site. Is there a reason it would be blocking ChatGPT? Is there a setting I need to change on my side?

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    1. KajMagnus @KajMagnus2026-03-12 10:17:41.064Z

      How odd, I just asked ChatGPT to access this page, and it could, see below.

      Talkyard doesn't intentionally block ChatGPT. It's hosted on Google Cloud though, I don't know if maybe Google did something funny, hmm.

      Here's when I tell ChatGPT (via chatgpt.com, GPT-5.3 it says it is) to access this page:

      Can you compose a reply to this page: "https://forum.talkyard.io/-901/link-was-blocked-from-be-read-when-posted-in-chatgpt-prompt"? If you can read it, then, ask for steps to repro (since you could apparently access the page)

      ChatGPT:

      Here’s a short reply you could post in that thread:

      I tried opening that page from ChatGPT and it actually worked on my side — I could access the topic page without any obvious blocking.

      So it might be something specific about how the link was used in the prompt, or something in the prompt text itself that triggered a refusal rather than the page being inaccessible.

      Could you share the exact steps to reproduce?

      For example:

      The exact prompt you pasted into ChatGPT

      The exact URL you included

      The model/version you used (e.g. GPT-4, GPT-4o, etc.)

      The full response message ChatGPT gave

      With that, it’d be easier to see if it’s a real page-access issue or just a prompt-handling quirk.

      So, steps to repro? :- )

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