Verizon and files.catbox
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With Verizon wireless service I can’t load any catbox files. The browsers all say the server can’t be found. On Wi-Fi the phone will load it. Does anyone else have this issue? Am I missing some setting or something?
Normally you are correct, but more and more sites are actually blocking all known VPN IP ranges. Happens to me all the time. I have to use the SwitchyOmega extension because of it. Google, Reddit, AT&T, and - yes - catbox have all started blocking VPN traffic. That's just a small example I can actually share without giving up too much info.
I have a docker host that runs a vpn, an http proxy, and a socks5 proxy and have that set as my default in SwitchyOmega. For sites like Reddit or Google I have them set to go out directly instead of using the proxy. I also have catbox.moe in there, going directly out. Otherwise they won't even connect to the site. I actually have 3 well-known VPNs currently (until the contracts run out on 2 of them next year) and copied my docker containers but with the other VPN providers and tried all three on hosts like Google or Reddit. None of them allowed connection - only going out direct worked. It is a real pain in the ass.
Seriously though - if you haven't tried SwitchyOmega (works in chrome and mozilla browsers) you really should. A nice thing about it is you can export the rules you make and import them in another browser (so laptop, desktop, chrome, brave, firefox - etc.).