IBJoel The Cloudflare error page is simply obnoxious (i.e. it tells us to pound sand). In light of the fact that IB is a paying customer, I'm guessing you could ask them for guidance.

I am curious if that is the same Cloudflare “error” page which I see at times when they have blocked me and put up the block page where they try to sell me on buying the very services used to block me.

I use NordVPN and I have to disconnect in order to view FT

Also from an airplane? Mine works flying with AS.

Yep! All the time. 🙄

I had been using NordVPN for several months and found today that it no longer works with FT.

Have you messaged IBJoel with the IP address? Tmk, their "pound sand" asks us to contact the site administrator, and Joel is the holder of that hot potato.

If I point NordVPN to San Francisco, FT doesn’t work. If I point it to Los Angeles, it does work.

If I point NordVPN to New York, FT doesn’t work. If I point it to Chicago, it does work.

That just means that the IP you share with many other NordVPN users in Chicago and Los Angeles hasn't yet been put on the Cloudflare poor-reputation list that Internet Brands use as part of their general defenses against bad stuff.

Worth remembering that when you use a public VPN service the IP you break out onto the internet with is shared with many other users, some of whom are up to no good. The public VPN operators are good at pushing the perceived benefits of their services, and whilst evading geo-location based content restrictions and/or pricing, and some local/country based access restrictions are reasonable use cases; overall because of who you are sharing the service with its my strong suggestion that public VPNs do not improve your security posture to the services you're interacting with.

I don’t need to use a VPN to access FT, but often forget to turn it off if I’m streaming shows. I find that my VPN sites for streaming work fine for FT, other US cities are hit and miss. I use VPN Unlimited.

I live near ORD and it doesn't work. So it doesn't work in Chicago now. I'm visiting my son in STL and it doesn't work there either.

Will do. Note for the mods, for some reason I wasn't able to copy and paste this in with my previous response via edit. So please merge, if convenient for you.

I'm a long timer on FT and have zero reception nowadays using my mozilla VPN on any browser. Turn it off, and no problem. this is using a NY connection.
hate to have this happen on next China trip!

I have about ten a$$ servers that work fine with ft favorited. I won't post them here, but am happy to pm if interested

I am not on a VPN but Cloudfare keeps blocking my work network. I click human verification but no captcha or similar test even comes up. Very annoying. It wasn't this way on Monday 06th February.