Here in the UK the main sci-hub domains are blocked at the ISP level.

We're a very censorous country.

Does using DNS over HTTPS avoid this block?

Edit: Thank you for the replies.

Nope. Just tried.

Hard redirect to http://www.ukispcourtorders.co.uk/?JNI_URL=sci-hub.st/&JNI_R...

It's very nice of the UK Government to give a nice ordered list of pirate sites to use, as long as you take the 30 seconds required to change your DNS or use a VPN.

Now finally a tax payer funded service by the UK Government that we all can appreciate.

The URL contains "JNI_DSTIP=186.2.163.201&JNI_DSTPORT=80"; so maybe they're intercepting connections to this IP? Does explicitly adding https:// work?

Otherwise there's always Opera where you can just click the "VPN" button.

DNS-o-TLS and bouncing from a UK-region cloud-provider endpoint works for me. Any ISP blocking (internet censorship in the UK is more rife than you’d expect) is either done via hijacking DNS (which D-o-T mitigates) or if you’ve a consumer ISP connection.

And I can't reply to myself above, but after starting ExpressVPN I can access the sites fine.

Just changing your dns is fine.

Not by all ISPs, eg my ISP is Andrews and Arnold that does not censor the internet.

Same with Vodafone in Germany.