diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 35fc26c01b..c6376986d2 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -106,4 +106,5 @@
     r"https://www\.omg\.org/*",  # incredibly unstable domain...
     r"https://www\.jccsoftware\.nl/.*",  # looks like the requests user agent is blocked...
     r"https://hub\.docker\.com/r/.*",  # HTTP 429, presumably docker hub is blocking/limiting Github CI runners
+    r"https://stackoverflow\.com/.*",  # SO 403s when running on github actions :/
 ]