[tor-talk] still unable to reach StartPage or Ixquick

[krishna e bera]

On 13-10-09 07:14 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote:
> After manually adding prefs.js entries in 3.0a4, that were suggested on
> Tor project Trac to make it work, there's no change in being unable to
> connect to Startpage, Ixquick, DDG; often even Wikipedia -SSL & Google.
> 
> Could it be (for Startpage & Ixquick), they've suddenly become very
> popular, due to lots of recent news about various "people" watching
> everything?  Maybe they're limiting Tor or other anonymous traffic to
> keep servers open for regular users.
> 
> No explanation for DDG, Wikipedia.  Just that in regular Fx, can connect
> to all of them instantly.


When you reinstalled or upgraded your TBB, did you remove the directory
first?  Sometimes a clean install gets rid of strange glitches leftover
from in place upgrades.