Polish users cut off from TalkChess

[Dann Corbit]

I have a friend in Poland who is not able to access CCC.
I remember that there was some European access problem a while back.
Maybe it did not get fixed for Poland

[Karol Majewski]

Hi Dann, I confirm that. Here in Poland we cannot access Talkchess.com since May (AFAIR). What I'm doing now is I'm connecting via proxy.

[Karol Majewski]

Guys, I'm bumping this thread as the issue hasn't been solved yet. Users from Poland still cannot acces Talkchess.com. Can you (mods) make this thread sticky until the issue is solved?

[MikeGL]

It would be interesting to hear the tricks used by members here who were able to connect and post.
Pay for a vpn subscription? use a free proxy server? use a browser with built-in proxy?

Of course, this implies you are outside U.S. because members who are using US ISP can connect here easily due to
firewall rules of the web hosting service being used by talkchess.

[carldaman]

They can try using the Tor browser.

[mclane]

The easiest way for the polish users is to install opera browser. There you can easily setup american identity.

We in Germany and other countries also once had to do so, be auseinander they threw us out.

It’s childish.

But do we have an alternative ?

[Dann Corbit]

Can someone give step by step instructions on how to use Opera or other browser to set up an identity that works?
I think it might be useful.
I guess the danger might be that whoever inspired this this whole "Lop off entire nations" approach might get ahold of it and start causing problems again.
Clearly there must have been some sort of absurd behavior that spawned this whole problem.
But it would be very nice if good people in foreign lands could connect and contribute

[mclane]

In Opera Browser ist is very easy to do.

E.g. Android. Click on the red O. Go to settings. Activate VPN and set area from optimal to usa.
That's it. Works also on PC.

[syzygy]

The easiest way for the polish users is to install opera browser. There you can easily setup american identity.

We in Germany and other countries also once had to do so, be auseinander they threw us out.

It’s childish.

But do we have an alternative ?

Thank you for your answer. So I understand that the problem does not only belong to Poland but also to other countries.I understand that this is how it should be. Sorry, but strange thing.

Germany is no longer blocked, but it was blocked some weeks ago.

This is of course not how it should be. But whoever is in charge of this doesn't seem to care.

[mclane]

The mistake was that we gave the forum to a company. We should have organised it ourselves.
This way they can do whatever they want and we can only pray,