Try switching your browser to a mobile view and see if that works. I have a hunch.
Potential double (triple) nat issue? Do any other streaming services work?
I don't have accounts on any other streaming services 😅 YouTube works, though
Do you have a suggestion how to eliminate this as a possibility?
Do you run pfblocker-ng? Try using it with another DNS service
What does Wireshark or tcpdump show on any relevant interfaces?
Alright, this is weird. I ran tcpdump on the server, and checked both physical and wg0 interface. For things like youtube, it's a constant stream of packets coming in on the physical interface, then immediately being relayed through wg0 - just as it should be.
But for Crunchyroll, there's.... Nothing. I get an initial burst of packets when opening the site containing the video I want to stream, and then packets just stop coming in once the page itself has fully loaded.
Are you familiar with web development by chance? Can you see anything in your browser’s developer tools like failed XHR/fetch requests? I’m kind of wondering if they’re doing something specific since you said traffic is flowing as expected on other websites.
If your VPN exits from a datacenter (common with VPN and cloud providers) it could be that while their website wasn’t smart enough to block you, the server the content streams from is and is refusing to stream the content. This would probably show up as a failure in the developer tools (HTTP 401 Unauthorized, some JSON with an error, etc).
Good idea. I get a number of CORS errors - but I also get them without the VPN, so I don't think that's it.
The idea that CR doesn't block me, their content hipster does though - that might have merit. Hm. I have noticed that some sites require me to solve the Cloudflare Captcha. So maybe that happens when requesting the page/stream, and then since I don't (can't) solve it, nothing happens?
Do you have an idea how I could verify this? 😅
Those websites (and tons of others) will tell you who your ISP appears to be. Whether or not a service considers it a datacenter isn’t set in stone, but usually it’s easy to tell based on what’s shown there.
Edit: If you’re getting the captchas it’s probably because you appear to be on a VPN.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
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