Turkish government just blocked access to YouTube after a terrorist attack - but the Vivaldi browser on my desktop still connects?
Turkish government just blocked access to YouTube after a terrorist attack - but the Vivaldi browser on my desktop still connects?
It also connects to discord, supposed to be blocked since more than a week. No other device or browser I have connects to YouTube, they all get ERR_SOCKET_NOT_CONNECTED, and only a fresh Vivaldi profile on the same pc also connects to Discord, everything else get ERR_CONNECTION_RESET.
I've tried disabling all extensions, it still connects. Checked its IP address and DNS server and they're the same as other devices/browsers. Any idea what could be going on?
24m edit: Discord just started working on some other chromium browsers including on another device.
80m edit: Another chromium browser just also connected. After deleting browser data it stopped
edit 3: found that if I add this to the servers section of a Network Persistent State file associated with a chromium browser profile (while the browser is closed), it can connect to youtube. Can't explain why. (anonymization says https://www.youtube.com + some number that doesn't matter in the beginning in base64):
{"alternative_service":[{"advertised_alpns":["h3"],"expiration":"13376788973168704","port":443,"protocol_str":"quic"}],"anonymization":["GAAAABMAAABodHRwczovL3lvdXR1YmUuY29tAA==",false],"server":"https://www.youtube.com","supports_spdy":true}
Edit 4: The block is gone
Maybe do a trace with wireshark and compare the connection attempts?
Most website blocks are done on a dns level, maybe vivaldi doesn't accept the "wrong" dns replies, uses DNS-over-HTTPS or doesn't query any affected dns servers.
I have secure DNS set up on all my devices, this isn't a DNS level block. I tried looking at the chrome Dev tools connection page and I would try wireshark too but idk what to look for, especially when I'm trying to figure out why it works
Edit: I'm pretty sure with normal DNS you get a page saying it's blocked for discord
have you tried setting your dns to the opendns servers, if yes, what were the results?
No change, vivaldi still connects other browsers still don't
Probably just uses a fallback DNS service when the "official one" fails
I'd recommend to not use ISP DNS in general.