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Xfinity thought something fishy was happening when I tried to watch some PeerTube videos via Tubefree and took it upon itself to block access to it. Has this happened to anyone else?

Also pinging @btfree / @ozoned just as an fyi.

#xfinity #peertube #tubefree

Your devices are protected

Security Threats Blocked
12/22, 2:37 PM
Google Pixel 4a
peertube.hel1.your-objectstorage.co
m

12/22, 2:26 PM
Google Pixel 4a
hel1.your-objectstorage.com — Your devices are protected Security Threats Blocked 12/22, 2:37 PM Google Pixel 4a peertube.hel1.your-objectstorage.co m 12/22, 2:26 PM Google Pixel 4a hel1.your-objectstorage.com

FinchHaven sfba

@FinchHaven@sfba.social replied · 8 hours ago

@mntyfrsh

OK: I'm on XFinity, never heard of Tubefree

Found it, loaded fine

Tried a video or two (a content format I'm not generally interested in: video) and they seemed to load and play just fine

Did *not* find any explicitly PeerTube video, so I don't know if that would be any different...

(Left Coast NW US, XFinity gigabit, Firefox browser tab on Ubuntu)

cc @btfree @ozoned

MntyFrsh

@mntyfrsh@mastodon.social replied · 8 hours ago

@btfree @ozoned
It seems that I can only allow access to it in one hour chunks...

X
Google Pixel 4a was allowed access to
peertube.hell.your-objectstorage.com
for 1 hour

Website
peertube.hel1.your-objectstorage.com — X Google Pixel 4a was allowed access to peertube.hell.your-objectstorage.com for 1 hour Website peertube.hel1.your-objectstorage.com

ozoned

@ozoned@social.ozoned.net replied · 7 hours ago

@mntyfrsh @btfree oh that's interesting. It's blocking access to the S3 bucket at Hetzner. @hetzner have you heard of any issues like this? That looks like something on your Google Pixel is blocking it.

When I was at the car dealership's last week and accessing TubeFree it was classifying it as Porn. I put in an audit and they immediately changed it.

Maybe Pixel or something is blocking and needs an override like that?

Logan Fick

@logan@social.logal.dev replied · 5 hours ago

@ozoned @mntyfrsh @btfree @hetzner Thanks very much for reporting this issue! It looks like Xfinity blocked the entirety of of Hetzner's S3 domain which unfortunately affected Tube Free.

I sent them a report requesting a re-assessment. Hopefully they will reconsider.

MntyFrsh

@mntyfrsh@mastodon.social replied · 3 hours ago

@logan @ozoned @btfree @hetzner
It seems that I'm now able to view Tubefree videos again! Not sure if it's perhaps because of @logan or someone at @hetzner's work or if the 1 hour of allowed access was actually indefinite, but all seems good for now!