Ahoy, fellow pirates. I’m having 2 issues:

1. “No streams found” on Stremio when SurfShark is turned on.

Call me crazy, but this basically defeats the purpose of SurfShark. They work when I turn it off. Even turning off “CleanWeb” on SurfShark doesn’t do it.

Any ideas why?

2. TorBox doesn’t let me pay.

This is a weird one. It seems TorBox isn’t very privacy-friendly. I did the one-day trial, and then wanted to pay. But they prevented me from paying altogether. Their support doesn’t say why, but they want me to disable my browser extensions, turn off my VPN, etc. Makes no sense to me, but I’m tired of trying. And I’m sure if I create a new account with them, the same thing will happen.

Who should I use instead of TorBox?

My priority is getting set up on Stremio and/or Nuvio.tv, but I was also hoping that my debrid service would integrate nicely with CinemaHQ.

I was looking at put.io, but on CHQ there are only the following services:

  • Premiumize
  • TorBox
  • AllDebrid (I heard this is having issues recently?)
  • EasyNews
  • Trakt
  • Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca
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    3 hours ago

    Torrentio has been restricted depending on the country that you’re VPN-ing from. Even without a debrid, just VPN, torrentio on stremio was rarely working.

    Ended up using TorrentsDB, a torrentio alternative add-on that uses the same scraped data as torrentio but was more readily available.

    https://stremio-addons.net/addons/torrentsdb

    I don’t know why you’re facing those issues with TorBox. I signed up with a VPN on and no issues. People tend to prefer TorBox specifically because they don’t care about your IP address and they accept multiple accesses to the same login. Are you using a bank card for payment?

    Worst case, try signing up for TorBox from a public wifi or similar.

    Also with TorBox, they’re pretty private already and you don’t necessarily have to use a VPN. But you still can if that’s what you want.

  • Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz
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    4 hours ago

    If you’re using Torrentio, then it’s probably not SurfShark at fault, but rather that Torrentio blocks access if it thinks you’re using a VPN.

    In terms of paying for Torbox, Real-Debrid also blocks most payments from VPNs, so I’m not if any of the other Debrid services are better in that regard.