France Escalates Polymarket Block to ISP Level After Payment Geofencing Failed to Curb Traffic

France's gambling regulator ordered ISPs to block Polymarket after a November 2024 transaction-level geoblock failed to stop French users, who generated 578,751 visits in June 2026 alone. The ANJ classifies the prediction-market platform as illegal gambling. Worth flagging: payment-layer geofencing reduced neither access nor traffic, pushing regulators toward DNS-level site blocking — a remedy VPN users can still circumvent.