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

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

@ozoned @mntyfrsh @btfree @hetzner

Is this something to do with @JenJen ?

@[email protected] i doubt it. Jen hasn't even really posted anything to tubefree.org yet. Guessing just the whole S3 being blocked.
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@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.
@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!
@mntyfrsh thank you very much for poking us BTW so that we could look into it!

Thank you @logan for putting in a report.
@ozoned @mntyfrsh Just got an email from Xfinity indicating they approved the removal of the block.
@logan @mntyfrsh thanks for the info and the hard work!

@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