# Appen (آبن)

> Appen is currently blocked in Syria, as of 2026-08-10.

- Status: blocked
- Outreach: Contacted
- Company: [Appen](https://unblocksyria.com/en/companies/appen.md)
- Categories: AI Training & Data Labeling, Freelancing
- Official site: https://appen.com
- Community votes: 8
- Last updated: 2026-08-10
- Page: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/appen

## About

AI training data platform offering crowd-sourced data collection, annotation, and labeling tasks

## Activity summary

Blocked in Syria, confirmed by community testing in March 2026, where the site returns a regional block page enforced by a security firewall on its web host. The team sent an official outreach email to the company in April 2026 requesting that the restriction be reviewed. No response has been received yet.

## Official timeline

- 2026-04-11 — Contacted Company. Official outreach email sent to dpo@appen.com requesting review of Syria IP restrictions under the current OFAC and BIS framework.

## Community reports

- 2026-03-23 — Investigated. Community testing confirmed that Appen is blocked in Syria. Accessing appen.com from a Syrian IP returns a Cloudflare block page stating "Sorry, you have been blocked" with a message indicating the user is unable to access cdn.webflow.com. Appen's website is hosted on Webflow, and the block is enforced by Cloudflare's WAF on Webflow's CDN infrastructure. (evidence: https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/jk8wirpvac2smffsf7o50vjh/jasgxipy6ipxkpfj67dp5vyw-screenshot-2026-03-23-162851.png)

## Context

These are geo-restrictions the companies applied themselves, not filtering by Syrian ISPs and not a legal requirement. US and EU sanctions on Syria were lifted in 2025. See https://unblocksyria.com/llms.txt for the regulatory summary and https://unblocksyria.com/en/about for citations to the specific orders and regulations.

## Machine-readable

- JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/appen?locale=en
- Timeline JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/appen/timeline?locale=en
- HTML: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/appen
- Other languages: https://unblocksyria.com/ar/services/appen.md, https://unblocksyria.com/ku/services/appen.md