[tor-relays] Strange Problem Browsing Blocked Websites‏

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 22:17:03 UTC 2014


On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Ferdi GULER <ferdiguler at outlook.com> wrote:
> In order to anonymize my browsing traffic on my main windows PC, I
> configured Firefox to use my raspberry pi as proxy on port 9050. When I
> visit the page https://check.torproject.org/, it says my configuration is
> successful and I see different ip address.
> From that point I assume everything should work properly but if I try to
> browse web sites that are blocked in my country such as youtube it just does
> not connect. However if I use VPN I can see those blocked web sites.

It is likely because the exit your client chose was blocked by
either youtube or by someplace in its path to youtube. You may try
'signal NEWNYM' / 'new identity' controller function, or 'ExitNodes'
configuration option as in the docs / search engine.

Thanks for running a relay.


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