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
  • qwestjest78@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

    Not to put down Stremio, but it does end up being a lot of work sometimes when you could just pick from one of the dozens of websites and stream it from your laptop.

    I know this is not a very slick setup, but then you only have to worry about the VPN.

  • GottaHaveFaith@fedia.io
    2·
    5 hours ago

    1 many websites block vpns, sadly the websites used to search for links will block you. This is not a stremio/stremio add-on issue.

    2 they’re telling you to disable extension/VPN because usually it’s what is blocking payment processors. This is not a torbox issue, payment is always an issue for privacy, and if you’re paying with a card/paypal, it does not make any difference to hide your ip.

    Trakt is not a debrid service, and I’ve never heard of easy news, also I’d expect you to have the same issues while paying on other websites.

    If you really don’t want to disable either the VPN and possibly the extensions check if one of the debrid service accepts either gift cards or crypto payments

  • Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    12 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.xyzEnglish
    1·
    13 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.