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
  • rageagainstthemachine@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    2 days ago

    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.

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      2 days ago

      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.