On 10/9/2013 8:00 PM, krishna e bera wrote:
On 13-10-09 07:14 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote:
... in 3.0a4, ... there's no change in being unable to
connect to Startpage, Ixquick, DDG; often even Wikipedia -SSL & Google.
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.