I blocked oracle.com and java.com at the firewall years ago. Source: 12 months ago

You should also try to install Oracle XE Edition (which is free) and go through all the training materials found on oracle.com. Source: about 1 year ago

Thanks everyone for your helpful replies!! On further investigation the site I'm looking at appears to be a "DNS Hosting" site, whatever that is. So it's like "site1.site2.net", but when I take away "site1", "site2.net" automatically redirects to "oracle.com". It seems like the original site is in a kind of public graveyard and it's may be old records, not up to date ones, that were forgotten when things were... Source: over 1 year ago

Ok so I am unable to install and use java (I'm just trying to mod minecraft). My problem is that when I install the correct java I need and try to open and install files with java there is no option to open with java after installing it. Ive also tried jarfix but when I open it it says there is no java presence to fix. I've installed on my C drive didn't work on my D drive didn't work ive uninstalled and... Source: over 1 year ago

I installed Java on oracle.com, and followed all the instructions, I added the path to my java bin file on my environment variable path. I tested it out on cmds and it does seem like I have it, when I did java -version, it outputted. Source: over 1 year ago

They may be using something like Sift for security checking and something of yours was flagged. Source: over 1 year ago

But sorry to break it to you, this has been done at a really large scale already although most consumers are not aware. One big player here is https://sift.com/ Almost every major retailer uses their service exactly for the reasons you mention. Source: almost 3 years ago

Reddit, for one. A pretty big list on their homepage. Source: almost 3 years ago