This should have been turned off today

Great - thanks a lot. Normal connectivity being experienced by me at work now !

Cloudflare is still blocking some of my favorite Astrill servers (I steer clear of the super popular ones). I always try to submit IP addresses.

I use Mozilla's VPN when out and my hotspot won't work (or at a lounge where their WiFi is faster). Mozilla's backend is on cloudflare, so that makes it doubly confusing. Here's the last error I got.

I find that I am now able to access FT when my NordVPN VPN is active.

Did you test with a lot of servers?

Not yet. I will try to disconnect and reconnect a few times over the next few days. For performance I usually stay within the cluster of NordVPN servers for the geographical area where I am currently located.

If you have a NordVPN server I should try, let me know.

Update:

I've been meaning to post this information for a while but keep forgetting. I have been using NordVPN when connecting to several (well over 10) websites that use CloudFlare as a security front end. Never had any issue with any of them. Makes me wonder what the requirements were for accessing FlyerTalk.

If you don't mind my prying, would you be able to PM me some/all of them? I'd be very interested to know what they were so we could possibly improve our experience here

Sure thing. I can think of two or three right now and will send the URLs to you via PM later on today.

I don't use Nord often these days because it isn't doesn't work very well in China. As long as you have servers you're happy with on your travel circuit, I suppose it doesn't really matter if others get blocked by Cloudflare and/or FT. On the other hand, it's difficult to declare "VPN x" is solid on FT without getting a bunch of data points.

FWIW, I'm using a NORD VPN server at the moment - one in the UK that has not usually been able to access this site.

I'll be in STL for a long weekend starting tomorrow evening. I'll report back as to how FT works with a different set pf VPN servers (NordVPN).

Update:

I tried adter arriving at my son's place and got the following error:I got an error when visiting www.flyertalk.com/forum/usercp.php.

Error code: 1020

Ray ID: 79aa68117ae0495d

Country: US

Data center: stl01

IP: 148.72.164.189

Timestamp: 2023-02-17 00:29:03 UTC

How did you manage that?

Same here, if I am watching something, then go on FT I get "access denied" message. Frustrating.

I did nothing different. I assume all the changes were on the FT/IB side of things.

I'll be back in Chicago Monday afternoon and will report back to make sure it still works there.

Update:

When I returned home on the afternoon of Monday 20 February, I found that connecting to FT while using NordVPN in the Chicago area no longer works.

I find this very interesting. It seems like I was able to connect to FT for a couple of weeks (starting on/near 8 February). The last successful connection was on Thursday 16 February. When I arrived in the St Louis area on the afternoon of Thursday 16 February, I could not connect to FT using NordVPN. On my return to the Chicago area last Monday (20 February) it did not work.

Update #2:

I had not tried accessing FT with my VPN active for 3 or 4 days and this morning it now works.

I don’t know whether this is VPN-related, but my Treat Protection-enabled NordVPN which blocks trackers and ads appears to suppress browser notifications for quotes and likes. Once I quit NordVPN and go to FT, days of notifications pop up.