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Title: Accessing forum over TOR increasingly harder
Post by: karnal on March 18, 2015, 03:04:00 pm
As a privacy-aware netizen, I do most of my browsing through the Tor network. Browsing this site is no exception,

Since the beginning, I've met with "This request has been denied for security reasons. If you believe this was in error, please contact support." at least a few times every day.

It could be my imagination but lately, this is happening more and more frequently.


Please keep access to the forum through Tor possible, there are some here who're 100% legit and access via tor 100% of the time.
Title: Re: Accessing forum over TOR increasingly harder
Post by: karnal on March 21, 2015, 02:13:21 pm
Any comment from a forum admin?
Title: Re: Accessing forum over TOR increasingly harder
Post by: karnal on April 01, 2015, 01:36:49 pm
This request has been denied for security reasons. If you believe this was in error, please contact support.
This request has been denied for security reasons. If you believe this was in error, please contact support.
This request has been denied for security reasons. If you believe this was in error, please contact support.
This request has been denied for security reasons. If you believe this was in error, please contact support.
This request has been denied for security reasons. If you believe this was in error, please contact support.


bump
Title: Re: Accessing forum over TOR increasingly harder
Post by: JA on April 01, 2015, 01:45:32 pm
I use cloudlfare to handle tor.
It doesn't block them but puts up a captcha in order to block bots.

Maybe the admins should consider setting something up like this.




Title: Re: Accessing forum over TOR increasingly harder
Post by: karnal on April 01, 2015, 02:26:33 pm
I'd rather refresh 5 times than filling those ******* captchas here as well. Unless you browse with Tor regularly, you have no idea how annoying these are.
Title: Re: Accessing forum over TOR increasingly harder
Post by: JA on April 01, 2015, 02:30:55 pm
I'd rather refresh 5 times than filling those ******* captchas here as well. Unless you browse with Tor regularly, you have no idea how annoying these are.
Lol,  You have no i dea how annoying automated tor bots are.

They screw up statisctics.
They put spam all over the place.
They use up resources for no good reason.

And it gets more and worse every day.
Title: Re: Accessing forum over TOR increasingly harder
Post by: karnal on April 01, 2015, 02:35:45 pm
I run hundreds of servers/vms for dozens of clients, I'd say I have an idea 8)

Grossly overstated.. YMMV
Title: Re: Accessing forum over TOR increasingly harder
Post by: bitsapphire on April 01, 2015, 07:37:25 pm
The problem is that we're getting DDOS attacks regularly and needed to put up some protection on our server provider. Other solutions as outlined by others put up captchas hich is a problem in and of itself.

Hopefully we can put up a hidden service on TOR itself soon, that could solve the problem, though that's not possible with our current server provider.
Title: Re: Accessing forum over TOR increasingly harder
Post by: karnal on April 01, 2015, 07:53:29 pm
Is it a server/vps?

If so, I assume you are referring to an eventual 'no tor' policy on their end.

IME, this only applies to exit relays, rarely to non-exit relays, and definitely not to hidden services.
Title: Re: Accessing forum over TOR increasingly harder
Post by: karnal on May 18, 2015, 11:01:55 am
This request has been denied for security reasons. If you believe this was in error, please contact support.
This request has been denied for security reasons. If you believe this was in error, please contact support.
This request has been denied for security reasons. If you believe this was in error, please contact support.
This request has been denied for security reasons. If you believe this was in error, please contact support.
This request has been denied for security reasons. If you believe this was in error, please contact support.

Connection reset.

This request has been denied for security reasons. If you believe this was in error, please contact support.
This request has been denied for security reasons. If you believe this was in error, please contact support.

*works* (for a minute or two..)

 :(
Title: Re: Accessing forum over TOR increasingly harder
Post by: karnal on May 26, 2015, 09:35:13 am
Only a handful of exit nodes appear to be blacklisted. Trying to reconnect on a new tor circuit eventually works, usually in 2-5 attempts.

Of course blacklisting only a few exit nodes accomplishes very little (besides annoying legit users). If it was a spamming problem, well, spammers can create new tor circuits too.


Please consider removing whatever configuration is causing this issue ..
Title: Re: Accessing forum over TOR increasingly harder
Post by: Jon Snow on May 30, 2015, 04:41:22 am
Winter is coming. Use a VPN.
Title: Re: Accessing forum over TOR increasingly harder
Post by: karnal on May 30, 2015, 03:41:06 pm
You know nothing, Jon Snow.
Title: Re: Accessing forum over TOR increasingly harder
Post by: karnal on June 06, 2015, 08:03:36 pm
#1
The connection has timed out

The server at bitsharestalk.org is taking too long to respond.

#2
This request has been denied for security reasons. If you believe this was in error, please contact support.

#3
This request has been denied for security reasons. If you believe this was in error, please contact support.

#4
This request has been denied for security reasons. If you believe this was in error, please contact support.

#5
The connection has timed out

The server at bitsharestalk.org is taking too long to respond.

#6
This request has been denied for security reasons. If you believe this was in error, please contact support.

#7
This request has been denied for security reasons. If you believe this was in error, please contact support.

#8
This request has been denied for security reasons. If you believe this was in error, please contact support.

#9
This request has been denied for security reasons. If you believe this was in error, please contact support.

#10
This request has been denied for security reasons. If you believe this was in error, please contact support.

#11
This request has been denied for security reasons. If you believe this was in error, please contact support.

#12
The connection has timed out

The server at bitsharestalk.org is taking too long to respond.


This was one of the shorter sessions. Usually it takes me 10-15 minutes now to be able to login.

Seriously not cool.