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How do Google servers discriminate anonymous users?
Error 403 and CAPTCHA are appearing because the exit node you're using is not dedicated to you only: Many people are using it, including to access Google and other services.
It seems - on a website ...
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How can website server recognize incoming Tor or VPN connection?
The list of exit nodes is well known so it's trivial for any system to look up into that list and see if any incoming connection comes from any of them.
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How to Add bridge relays
You cannot.
Bridges only serve as entry points to the network, their purpose is to get you onto the tor network through potentially uncensored means. They are simply private guards which are not ...
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why do I get "Access Denied" at certain web sites when I didn't last year?
It may not be the comprehensive answer you are looking for, but it's very common for larger companies to offsource the majority of their infrastructure gruntwork, including the handling and building ...
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Banned IP on website using Tor
If you were using the Tor Browser in the recommended way, then there's nothing to worry about; your real IP address won't have been exposed, and the site could only have seen the IP address of the ...
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404 page not found with 3quarksdaily.com
The website http://www.3quarksdaily.com/ uses CloudFlare and CloudFlare has special access rules. When they see a Tor exit relay the website operator can choose from four options
let the traffic go ...
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Shutterstock sends "406 Not Acceptable"
I also tried to open the Shutterstock site and got the same error message. Furthermore I used several different exit relays. All resulting in the same message.
So I assume they block the Tor network. ...
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How can I install Tor Browser if torproject.org is blocked by my ISP?
The recommended way to install Tor Browser is to install it directly and not through torbrowser-launcher.
There is some information about getting Tor Browser on the torproject.org website, but since ...
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The scary torrc
First of all, backup your /etc/tor/torrc and revert to the original of something breaks.
cp /etc/tor/torrc/ /etc/tor/torrc.backup
All of the rest is in the manual.
Exit nodes:
ExitNodes node,...
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How do I install tor on arch in a country where tor is blocked?
Forget using AUR for this because AUR will only download from one specific place unless you recode it to pull from another location yourself. Download Tor Browser from another source. I am going to ...
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Error 462 Not Allowed
It seems they run a Varnish caching server in front of their page. The server tries to find out if someone connects over Tor and blocks this connection. I tried to use http://archive.is and to ...
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Error 462 Not Allowed
I can get lifewire through Tor by just running its link anonymously in Startpage.
For example: use DDG or Startpage and search on (w/out quotes) "lifewire.com". Click on Anonymous View for that https:...
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Login to sites not working
It depends on a website and on blocking mechanism used. If it's a by-ip basis block - then all the exit nodes can be disallowed to login and you have no luck. In this case a VPN will help you. If it's ...
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Internet blocked
WARN: Proxy Client: unable to connect to 154.35.22.10:1984 ("Host unreachable")
It looks like there's a problem with your internet connection. That error normally means one of two things:
Your local ...
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No Internet with Orbot
"My V3 Antivir Safes all my intern Datas"
There's your problem. Your antivirus app is interfering with your Internet traffic. Disable or uninstall the app, and Orbot should work just fine.
Of course,...
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xTube - - why can't I access it using TOR?
Use a vpn as opposed to tor. I use a throwaway one like Vigilantium while traveling. https://vigilantium.com
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if one site blocks the entrance with tor browser, what can I do?
It's not possible to hide this from websites. Unless the website operators unblock Tor, there is nothing you can do.
You said right in your question "they are forbidden clones," which means you are ...
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Is there any effort put into limiting/preventing abuse coming from tor exit nodes
Google and Facebook run commercial services. They can block whoever they want to for whatever reason. If they wanted to block all Tor users, for no reason whatsoever, then that would be their ...
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why do I get "Access Denied" at certain web sites when I didn't last year?
Some web sites block all Tor exit nodes. Some even block all Tor relays, also non-exits.
The only way to access those sites is to connect from a different IP. Not from a Tor node.
You can use a ...
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Help with a website
Try to use Meek pluggable transport, and if it won't help, post your error log and torrc here, so I'll be able to assist you further
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How would I block exit nodes correctly?
You could run TorDNSEL and cache the DNS information locally. That will allow you to only have to check once. Another thing is that you could simply download the consensus form any directory mirror. ...
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How can I check for a website's behavior towards Tor, compared to its normal behavior?
This isn't a question about Tor. It really boils down to: How do I programmatically check whether two websites are the same?
Where those two websites are, 1) the site when browsing without Tor, 2) ...
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