Hello Roy,
You are right I am being blocked!
I was able to access the links you gave me on Chrome, but not on FireFox where I run my Jupyter notebook with my VPN on
So I tried with the VPN off and it worked just fine
Last year with the VPN on it was OK, not this year
I am in a region of the world where it is useful to use a VPN, so that would be nice to know a work around, but don't want to make anyone waist too much time on this detail