There will be times you want to use a website but unfortunately they block Tor users from accessing it. Recently, a website I frequently used through Tor called CivitAI (which is kind of a large repository for AI Image generation models), elevated their cloudflare security level, which began block…

[image] redoomed1: Some VPN providers and other publications will occasionally recommend these bad configurations to evade Tor bans (exit nodes being blocked by websites) in some places. Normally , Tor frequently changes your circuit path through the network. When you choose a permanent destinati…

How do you even set up a VPN connection after Tor in Tor Browser?

If you plan to go down this route please test first if the website doesn’t block the VPN as well. I found quite a few websites that are hostile to VPN too.

One thing I’m still concerned about is browser fingerprinting, which is why I’m still not comfortable enough with using the site with Mullvad Browser. However, I have an idea that could perhaps work, but I’m not sure on some of the details. The site appears to offer logged in users an API key, and …

I just found out that bridges do the trick.

@OnionLover Bridges have nothing to do with connecting to websites, only for connecting to Tor.

I don’t know. I just can tell that it worked out for me. It blocked my connection too, but after I reconnected with obfs4 I could reach civit.ai.

Ahh I see. I tested it again with bride mode activated but it wont work. I also tried multiple times to change my identity and connect with a new circuit but it still doesn’t worked. I don’t know what I did differently yesterday.

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Dealing with a website that recently began blocking TOR users

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anonymous289 (anonymous289) February 26, 2025, 2:56pm 14

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You just need to use the new circuit or new identity button.

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