Quite a few websites fail to load
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idk
Either a black screen saying that website could not load (I'll update this submission with a screenshot and correct message later) or by never finishing to load the website.
Reproduce (Win11, MASQ 0.9.6):
- Browse to https://haven.xx.network/
- Type in password of your choice and click on Continue.
This chat app will not load past the password login stage.
It loads fine while MASQ network is disconnected (not consuming).
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Gravitationskollaps
I can also confirm this in principle. I have problems loading many Websites, too. From my point of view, this is due to the fact that MASQ currently has many exit nodes in the data center at various cloud providers. But there is a huge Problem with data center IPs, because they are known and are now blocked on many websites. This should also be considered for the future at MASQ development, as more and more datacenter IPs will become unusable. I even have problems loading videos on YouTube during many MASQ sessions. Why is that? Because the providers recognize from the datacenter IP that it is not an “ordinary” user. If you're lucky, you only have to fill out a captcha, which you wouldn't have had to do otherwise. If things go badly, as is often the case with YouTube, you have to log in with an account (authenticate) to be able to watch videos.
From my point of view, the only solution that could make MASQ stand out is to give preference to exit nodes that are operated by users via their home connection and are explicitly NOT hosted in a data center. The nodes hosted by private individuals would of course have to get more MASQ than datacenter nodes due to the higher risk (hosting an exit node is dangerous).