opensubtitles.org blocked in my country

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bordplate
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opensubtitles.org blocked in my country

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as the title says, opensubtitles is blocked in my country (Norway). Is there any way to make filebot use a proxy when checking, or using a different site?
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Yes, FileBot will use your default HTTP/HTTPS proxy. Using a VPN is an option too.


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No, there is no support for sites other than OpenSubtitles.
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torhaala
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bordplate wrote: 19 Nov 2017, 10:15 as the title says, opensubtitles is blocked in my country (Norway). Is there any way to make filebot use a proxy when checking, or using a different site?
If you are still struggling with this you can fix it by changing the DNS server away from your ISP to for example Google's (8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4). This blocking (Norway and Denmark) is just a blocking of the DNS lookup at the ISPs and thus relatively easy to get around. For now at least..
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I highly recommend using the new CloudFlare DNS as it's quite a bit faster than any other service:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/
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rednoah wrote: 09 Jul 2018, 20:30 I highly recommend using the new CloudFlare DNS as it's quite a bit faster than any other service:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/
Just testing that now and seems to work like a charm with filebot happily downloading subtitles, not that i would expect otherwise ;)
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