Using Tor, I am able to favorite a post but not vote.

aiyke said:
Using Tor, I am able to favorite a post but not vote.

The browser or the onion router proxy?

It's probably because the node providing an outproxy/exit has been used for vote spam and got blocked.

The vote spamming issue makes sense.

I don't think there's any restrictions on paid VPNs and a cursory search doesn't pull up anything. What's your purpose for using Tor? A VPN might be able to serve that purpose if it's something like privacy, but free VPNs suck ass so you'll want a paid one.

(All this said, I'm not staff, don't speak for them, etc.)

alphamule said:
The browser or the onion router proxy?

It's probably because the node providing an outproxy/exit has been used for vote spam and got blocked.

The Tor browser is just a Firefox install packaged with the onion router proxy. Exit nodes are often banned from websites for pretty obvious reasons, so it's likely e621 does the same.

peacethroughpower said:
I don't think there's any restrictions on paid VPNs and a cursory search doesn't pull up anything. What's your purpose for using Tor? A VPN might be able to serve that purpose if it's something like privacy, but free VPNs suck ass so you'll want a paid one.

(All this said, I'm not staff, don't speak for them, etc.)

The Tor browser is just a Firefox install packaged with the onion router proxy. Exit nodes are often banned from websites for pretty obvious reasons, so it's likely e621 does the same.

Yeah, the browser itself does some non-standard things that some sites hate.

If you're going to use a VPN, might as well make one using a VPS, unless you have a reason to want ability to choose from 500+ IP addresses or something. ;)

alphamule said:
Yeah, the browser itself does some non-standard things that some sites hate.

If you're going to use a VPN, might as well make one using a VPS, unless you have a reason to want ability to choose from 500+ IP addresses or something. ;)

I mean, I'm pretty sure most people wouldn't have the patience to learn how rather than just using an easy program from some company. (I still need to set up an external SSH for my Linux box, but I really don't want to expose it to the outside world until I have the time and patience to make sure it's truly secure.)

peacethroughpower said:
I mean, I'm pretty sure most people wouldn't have the patience to learn how rather than just using an easy program from some company. (I still need to set up an external SSH for my Linux box, but I really don't want to expose it to the outside world until I have the time and patience to make sure it's truly secure.)

If using the web browser SOCKS setting, you literally just spin up PuTTY (Windows) and SSH in. The real effort is making sure you use a key and not a password. Passwords + port 22 = dumb, even if you use a long one. You'll get annoying hay bails of pointless attempts. So... it's easy to setup the proxy (or VPN, you can do that as well), but making sure that browser doesn't do stuff like DNS leaks, or that your VPS isn't pwnd, is a different matter. TOR browser is free + easy, so popular. No VPN needed! :D But because easy mode, idiots use it, so it gets blocked. D:

I know I'm a little late to this, but we end up blocking many tor nodes because of abuse, and make no accommodations for it as a result.

It's fine. The site is still accessible with no issues so it's not a big deal.