Ahoy, fellow pirates. I’m having 2 issues:
1. “No streams found” on Stremio when SurfShark is turned on.
Call me crazy, but this basically defeats the purpose of SurfShark. They work when I turn it off. Even turning off “CleanWeb” on SurfShark doesn’t do it.
Any ideas why?
2. TorBox doesn’t let me pay.
This is a weird one. It seems TorBox isn’t very privacy-friendly. I did the one-day trial, and then wanted to pay. But they prevented me from paying altogether. Their support doesn’t say why, but they want me to disable my browser extensions, turn off my VPN, etc. Makes no sense to me, but I’m tired of trying. And I’m sure if I create a new account with them, the same thing will happen.
Who should I use instead of TorBox?
My priority is getting set up on Stremio and/or Nuvio.tv, but I was also hoping that my debrid service would integrate nicely with CinemaHQ.
I was looking at put.io, but on CHQ there are only the following services:
- Premiumize
- TorBox
- AllDebrid (I heard this is having issues recently?)
- EasyNews
- Trakt
1 many websites block vpns, sadly the websites used to search for links will block you. This is not a stremio/stremio add-on issue.
2 they’re telling you to disable extension/VPN because usually it’s what is blocking payment processors. This is not a torbox issue, payment is always an issue for privacy, and if you’re paying with a card/paypal, it does not make any difference to hide your ip.
Trakt is not a debrid service, and I’ve never heard of easy news, also I’d expect you to have the same issues while paying on other websites.
If you really don’t want to disable either the VPN and possibly the extensions check if one of the debrid service accepts either gift cards or crypto payments
So the streaming and torrent websites will block the software that makes it possible to access them privately? That’s mind boggling honestly.
I gave up on TorBox and went to Premiumize instead. No issues.
VPNs providers have a limited number of exits, so their IP address are “public”.
Since a lot of scammers etc use VPNs to operate, it’s common for many platforms to just block these known IPs.
Google may ask for CAPTCHAs, for example.