Permission Denied on Websites

That’s typically an error on the website.

If you do have an add-on security app or add-on anti-malware app, or add-on VPN client app, remove all that per the vendors’ instructions, restart, and try again.

Failing that, contact the website maintainers, and report it to them.

For me the problem was the VPN client app on my computer. I had my VPN set to connected in Privacy & Security and it was blocking a lot of sites. I disconnected it restarted my computer and problem solved. Now I only connect the VPN from the VPN client app without it being set to "connected" in Privacy and Settings.

Hope this helps someone else.

First-few-hops VPN clients badly solve a problem that hasn’t existed for a decade or so, and badly solves it in a way that best allows personally-identified metadata collection.

If you need to test a CDN or geo-distributed website, they can work, as can running Algo.

For privacy, have a look at iCloud+ Private Relay.

For most uses, first-few-hops VPNs are arguably better considered to be data collection mechanisms, not privacy-enhancing mechanisms.