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Tidal are now blocking IP's that has Tor Nodes running

5 pointsby kimusanover 4 years ago
Some time ago the Tidal music streaming service stopped working at my home. I wrote to their support but it took weeks to get a reply. Initially they told me that my IP was on a blocking list (RBL) and this was the reason. I got removed from that list (it was some irrelevant RBL nobody uses) but Tidal did still not work.<p>I eventually got one of their more tech savvy supporters (like that is a thing - NOT!) which told me that my IP was blocked because somebody was abusing it for a Tor Exit node. He even linked to a page that listed my IP as having a tor node (clearly stating that it was NOT an Exit Node). I told them that the Tor Node was mine and left there intentionally to support the Tor Network + for my network tech research.<p>Their answer was that I could change my IP or use a VPN (or kill my Tor Node of course!) if I wanted to continue to use Tidal.<p>Neither of those options are possible for me so as I need to Tor node for work research, my IP is static and &quot;rented&quot; for 10 years to come. VPN is just not possible for every device in the house that would normally run Tidal.<p>I guess that Tidal just don&#x27;t want to have customers anymore.<p>So what should Tidals Argument be for blocking IP&#x27;s with a tor node? I mean, I will be able to get many IP addresses blocked simply by turning on the Tor Browser while using some network. It seems like a stupid decision made by people who do not know how Tor works.

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