Accessing Lichess with Tor

[trizen]

It no longer seems possible to access Lichess, using Tor:

$ proxychains curl "https://lichess.org"
[proxychains] config file found: /etc/proxychains.conf
[proxychains] preloading /usr/lib/libproxychains4.so
[proxychains] DLL init: proxychains-ng 4.16
[proxychains] Random chain  ...  127.0.0.1:9050  ...  lichess.org:443 <--socket error or timeout!
curl: (7) Couldn't connect to server

Is this intentional? If so, why?

[niklasf]

Lichess does not block Tor and I successfully played an anonymous game just now. My best guess is that someone used the particular exit node, got rate limited, and eventually IP banned. Maybe try a new channel?

There is one limitation (that looks completely different): It is possible to play anonymous games or games with an existing account, but we do not allow registering new accounts via Tor.

[trizen]

Thanks for your answer.

I managed to access Lichess using a different exit node. However, most Tor exit nodes seem to be blocked. It's very hard to find one exit node IP that is not blocked... I never experienced this issue before, and I accessed Lichess exclusively over Tor in the past 1 or 2 years and it was always accessible.

Here is an example of a Tor exit node IP that fails to connect to Lichess:

And here is a Tor exit node IP that works:

Maybe something changed recently in regard to IP blocking?

[niklasf]

Maybe something changed recently in regard to IP blocking?

Actually yes, there's one change that might have had this impact. Hang on, I'll bring it up internally.

[niklasf]

How about now?

[trizen]

How about now?

Thanks! Now it works perfect!