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> On Oct 9, 2013, at 21:59, Joe Btfsplk <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 10/9/2013 8:00 PM, krishna e bera wrote: >>> On 13-10-09 07:14 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: >>> After manually adding prefs.js entries in 3.0a4, that were suggested on >>> Tor project Trac to make it work, there's no change in being unable to >>> connect to Startpage, Ixquick, DDG; often even Wikipedia -SSL & Google. >>> >>> Could it be (for Startpage & Ixquick), they've suddenly become very >>> popular, due to lots of recent news about various "people" watching >>> everything? Maybe they're limiting Tor or other anonymous traffic to >>> keep servers open for regular users. >>> >>> No explanation for DDG, Wikipedia. Just that in regular Fx, can connect >>> to all of them instantly. >> >> When you reinstalled or upgraded your TBB, did you remove the directory >> first? Sometimes a clean install gets rid of strange glitches leftover >> from in place upgrades. > I never install TBB over the top of old versions or use an old profile. > > Since it's done the same thing (starting > a wk ago in 2.3.25-12), now same > exact thing in 2.3.25-13 & 3.0a4. > I can connect to Bing & Yahoo - in any TBB version I'm now trying. > > I even have tabs open w/ the URLs already entered for Startpage, Ixquick, > Google & say Bing, Yahoo AND any usual site. Google doesn't fail as much, but > never had a problem w/ any of them before. > So when Startpage, et al. fail, I instantly load another site (Mozilla.org, > etc.) - which succeeds - using the same relay circuit. I checked w/ the > network map open to make sure circuits weren't changing between the failures > & successes. > > One or 2x wouldn't mean anything, but I've repeated it dozens of times over > many days w/ very consistent results. > I also have Firefox open w/ the same site as TBB - say Startpage. When they > fail in TBB, I instantly load it in regular Fx & loads every time. So the > search sites' servers aren't overloaded - at least for normal internet > traffic. > > For a bit, I wondered if my ISP was slowing connections to Tor relays, but I > don't have the TBB connection problem w/ most other sites, so that can't be > it. I'm just brain storming. > Thinking outside the box - what if I look at the problem from opposite > direction. Instead of thinking as a problem of "Startpage, et al. not > accepting Tor / TBB," look at it from a "Tor / TBB having problems with these > sites" stance (Startpage, et al.). > > There's obviously SOME reason, but not typical - given all the methods & > versions I've used to rule out possibilities. Yahoo, Bing, Amazon, Ebay > searches - together w/ the nsa, *must* be blocking me from other searches > engines, forcing me to use them. Yeah, that must be it. > -- > tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] > To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
