Can’t access milovana.com without VPN

[ChameleonNeeko]

Hi everyone, when I try to go to https://milovana.com/ without a VPN the website doesn’t load at all. I wish I could elaborate but that’s all that happens, a gray unloaded page. I live in Turkey where there’s some internet censorship but I doubt they specifically added milovana to that list. https://www.comparitech.com/privacy-sec ... edinturkey This website says that milovana is not blocked in my country. The site loads when I use Opera VPN or Aloha browser VPN’s but for speed, privacy and some other reasons I’d prefer not to use them. When I try Cloudflare DNS to visit this website it gives me Error 525 SSL Handshake failed and blames milovana.com (host) which I think is wrong because the site is indeed up. Any way I can troubleshoot further, give more info or fix this? Appreciate any help

[FrozenWolf]

If you're using Firefox, you can open the developers panel by pressing F12. Other browsers have similar capabilities that might also be enabled by pressing F12.

What I did in this example was:

• Press F12 to open the developers panel
• Choose the 'Network' tab on the developer panel
• Enter "https://milovana.com" into the URL box and hit return

This shows me this:

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If you could do something similar with your browser, you might be able to see where it's stopping.

Note: If your 'Network' shows no entries at all, press Ctrl-F5 to force a refresh of the page.

It does look like Turkey restricts quite a lot, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_ ... _in_Turkey, but it would interesting to see what your browser thinks is going on.

[ChameleonNeeko]

Turns out milovana.com was banned in 2014 in Turkey. Was about to do the thing you told but instead of a gray screen I got the "this website is blocked for your safety!!!!" warning.

[FrozenWolf]

That's a shame, but at least you managed to find the cause in the end. You might have to invest in a commercial VPN if the free ones have poor performance or privacy concerns.

[janmb]

A commercial VPN service is indeed something I would encourage in general, and especially when living in regions where such censorship is a thing.