Turkish government just blocked access to YouTube after a terrorist attack - but the Vivaldi browser on my desktop still connects? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Lojcs@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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?

Cross posted from https://lemm.ee/post/45606568 to reach as many people before they unblock it and the chance to investigate is gone

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 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 over

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[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There's an unusual report spike on downdetector.web.tr pretty recently on multiple sites.

I am also affected by this, BTK shows no actions taken on their end according to these sites. My guess is that either a throttling is being done by the government silently; or it's a genuine issue from a cloud server provider.

If you want to access these sites, would reccomend ProtonVPN until this issue gets resolved.

[-] Lojcs@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As this kind of thing happens after every public crisis and it stopped working on different networks at different times (vodafone was fine for a while in the beginning), I think it's safe to say it's intentional.

And as I explained, the weird part is that my browser's fine despite not using a vpn. No slowdown (on youtube at least) at all

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