France Orders ISP-Level Block of Polymarket After Payment Geofencing Fails

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