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Economy => Web Wallets => Topic started by: Hyena on December 18, 2015, 12:15:51 PM



Title: Blockchain.info not working!!! Giving me the onion address but I'm not using Tor
Post by: Hyena on December 18, 2015, 12:15:51 PM
When I go to https://blockchain.info/

I get "Please use our onion link https://blockchainbdgpzk.onion/"

The site is not working, their API is not working, nothing is working. I anyone else having the same problems? I am not using Tor, just normal clearnet web browsing.

edit:
Apparently it happens because I'm using the Private Internet Access VPN. It has to be a mistake anyway because I'm not going to start using Tor because of that. What are they thinking anyway. This is stupid.

edit2:
problem solved by reconnecting to my VPN (it probably changed my IP)


Title: Re: Blockchain.info not working!!! Giving me the onion address but I'm not using Tor
Post by: everaja on December 18, 2015, 12:19:02 PM
Site working correctly for me.
Try reconnecting your Internet again , i think some Problem with your IP.


Title: Re: Blockchain.info not working!!! Giving me the onion address but I'm not using Tor
Post by: a7mos on December 18, 2015, 12:20:39 PM
The site is online, I just checked it and it worked without any problem.


Title: Re: Blockchain.info not working!!! Giving me the onion address but I'm not using Tor
Post by: Holdaaja on December 18, 2015, 12:25:41 PM
100% working for me too.


Title: Re: Blockchain.info not working!!! Giving me the onion address but I'm not using Tor
Post by: Hyena on December 18, 2015, 12:25:58 PM
Thanks for the replies. I am using the Private Internet Access VPN. It might have something to do with it. Anyway, it seems like the fault of blockchain.info because they assume that I use Tor but I don't use Tor and I don't intend to start using Tor just because of them suggesting it. Should I contact their support and start whining about it?


Title: Re: Blockchain.info not working!!! Giving me the onion address but I'm not using Tor
Post by: stepmike on December 18, 2015, 12:26:48 PM
Also work 100%  Check your PC network settings.


Title: Re: Blockchain.info not working!!! Giving me the onion address but I'm not using Tor
Post by: Holdaaja on December 18, 2015, 12:27:28 PM
Thanks for the replies. I am using the Private Internet Access VPN. It might have something to do with it. Anyway, it seems like the fault of blockchain.info because they assume that I use Tor but I don't use Tor and I don't intend to start using Tor just because of them suggesting it. Should I contact their support and start whining about it?

Did you try with different ip?


Title: Re: Blockchain.info not working!!! Giving me the onion address but I'm not using Tor
Post by: Hyena on December 18, 2015, 12:33:58 PM
Thanks for the replies. I am using the Private Internet Access VPN. It might have something to do with it. Anyway, it seems like the fault of blockchain.info because they assume that I use Tor but I don't use Tor and I don't intend to start using Tor just because of them suggesting it. Should I contact their support and start whining about it?

Did you try with different ip?

Ok unfortunately I didn't look what my old VPN IP was but after disconnecting and reconnecting to the VPN I was able to connect to blockchain.info again. Perhaps such an act made me connect to a different VPN server with a different IP which made the difference. I didn't change the gateway though, it's still nl.privateinternetaccess.com I just reconnected and it started working. Thanks for the help. This hasn't happened to me before. I was already afraid that blockchain.info has gone nazi against VPN users.

edit:
I found the old IP address which was 109.201.154.208
After reconnecting this indeed changed and the new one is working properly with blockchain.info
I still don't like that blockchain.info is discriminating users by their IP address, it's sort of racist


Title: Re: Blockchain.info not working!!! Giving me the onion address but I'm not using Tor
Post by: Jannn on April 02, 2016, 02:46:00 PM
I have the same problem: Using VPN blockchain.info wants to load blockchainbdgpzk.onion, which does not work. I tried to reconnect several times, each time getting a different IP, without any results.
I read they did this as bad evil TOR exit nodes have been stealing bitcoins in the past. I would still like to connect to blockchain, if possible without using a different wallet.