[tor-talk] Fox News bans my Tor Browser

[Joe Btfsplk]

On 1/17/2015 3:41 PM, l.m wrote:
> "Joe Btfsplk" wrote:
>
>> Just one example:  Say,  https://ixquick.com/ (or Startpage), requires a
>> captcha.  Getting a new identity *often* doesn't remove the captcha
>> requirement - but sometimes does.
>> I started looking at possible reasons why.
 From what I've seen on many sites, including Ixquick / Startpage, is 
their presentation of captchas is VERY much related to the specific IP 
and / or the specific exit relay country.  Once those are changed 
(manually - by me) to say,
1) an IPa (or range) that isn't on some black list - or ones they've 
just had more than usual problems with, in the past, or
2) a country they don't have a lot of problems from,
they don't present captchas.  Those captchas *require* JS, so you must 
enable, even if want to solve the captcha.
On MANY sites, even w/ JS enabled, the *captchas don't work.*
Upshot?  By waiting around for Tor / TBB to change the circuit by 
itself, you may wait a hell of a long time, to get on a site, that 
(often) works fine w/ TBB, if you use the "right" country & a clean IPa.

So what do you do, especially when the captcha doesn't work (assuming 
you don't mind enabling JS)?  Wait for 10, 30, 50 min., for Tor to - 
maybe - build a circuit, using a country (or IP range) that a site 
hasn't "blacklisted?"  But, there's no guarantee (I've seen) that Tor 
will ever build a circuit any time soon, that doesn't use a country 
that's objectionable to the site.

Again, unless I just decide to wait hours, days to connect to a site 
that's balking at a specific exit relay country (or IP range), I just 
manually close the circuit, until it stops using eastern european exits, 
etc.  Then the sites usually connect fine.  I really don't want to have 
to do that, but unless I want to wait forever to connect to some sites, 
it's the only way I've found.

Many of the sites don't give captchas, or any message, when they see a 
country or IP they don't like.