Various sites and services being blocked - how to fix?
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@elmojo, Excellent.
Brother, I have a cybersecurity company if you are interested you can always contact me via email WelinsonQuezada@Gmail.com
If you know of someone interested in some VPN or advanced configuration on networks (hardware or software does not matter) you can contact me.
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@silence Thanks for that. I have a client who might need your services.
I will pass along the info.
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@elmojo, Thank you and have a merry Christmas and New Year.
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I hate to open this old wound again, but I suspect you're correct @Silence, something is still not quite right with my configuration.
Mot everything works okay, but certain sites (specifically Google services) are constantly telling me that they don't recognize me, and are asking for identity verification.
Was there something you saw in the logs that could be causing that?
It's really annoying to constantly have to jump through those extra hoops just to prove I am who I say I am to Google. :/ -
Check this : Google doesn't recognize you if your WAN IP changed and/or the browser you use doesn't accept cookies.
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@gertjan said in Various sites and services being blocked - how to fix?:
Check this
- My WAN IP hasn't changed, at least not recently.
- My browser does accept cookies, as far as I know. Again, it hasn't changed recently.
Actually.... I take that back... I did install a privacy extension on my desktop browser. Let me try disabling that and see if it's the problem. Thanks for the tips!
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@elmojo said in Various sites and services being blocked - how to fix?:
My WAN IP hasn't changed, at least not recently.
@elmojo said in Various sites and services being blocked - how to fix?:
I did install a privacy extension on my desktop browser
So, your WAN IP did change.
The WAN IP here is the IP the browser uses.
The browser-VPN goes out over the pfSEnse WAN IP, true, but in this case that IP isn't visible. It's the VPN WAN IP that counts here.When you manage to access Google, type :
What is my WAN IP ?
Using the browser extension you mentionned, it's probably not the pfSense WAN IP (if it is, you have a scam extension ;) )
This is why you use a VPN browser extension in the first place.Using a VPN, or VPN look alike, will attribute you a IP that is probably known and listed by Google.
Even if your VPN WAN IP stays the same, Google will keep on asking you to click on 'traffic lights', 'bridges' or 'cars'. This is because they (Google) have difficulties handling the product (you are the product) and they know that collected data is nearly useless for them. So, yeah, they will make life difficult for you. -
@gertjan What VPN? I didn't say anything about a VPN... lol
What I meant was that I'm sure my WAN IP has changed at some point in the past, but not since I've been able to access Google services without issue. The issues all started around the time when we were doing all the troubleshooting for the blocked sites.Regardless, I think the problem may have been the privacy extension (not a VPN!) that I installed in my browser. It had nothing to do with the pfsense, but may have caused the Google issue, and just been bad timing, since it made it look like it was related. I'll do some additional checking and report back.
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@elmojo, I will be awaiting your next comment.
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@silence So far, it seems to be just one of my gmail accounts.
I'm not sure why that one is in paranoid mode, but the others are acting normally.
We''ll call it okay for now. :) Thanks for the responses!
