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Rytex Your Friend on the Other Side from Here, There, Everywhere (Ancient one) Relationship Status: Married to the music
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#1: Feb 15th 2023 at 9:40:17 AM

It sits with the spinning graphic when I attempt to search for something, but it doesn't actually return anything. New Search does returns results, but only seems to get what I want about half the time. Have to go through Google to consistently get what I'm looking for.

I saw there was an issue like this about five years ago, didn't know if it had just returned.

It could also be a byproduct of me using a VPN now, which I wasn't using yesterday, but search does come back and work for a few seconds if I accidentally time it right, so I don't think that's the case.

EDIT: It does appear to be tied to my VPN, but not completely, because it consistently works again when I disconnect and fails again when I reconnect to it, while still occasionally succeeding.

Edited by Rytex on Feb 15th 2023 at 11:41:41 AM

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#2: Feb 16th 2023 at 9:47:55 AM

It most likely is your VPN. TV Tropes does not permit people to use its search function if you are using an adblocker. You whitelist the site on your adblocker, and you can use the search function again. In this case, the VPN might just be tripping that same restriction.

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Karxrida from Eureka, the Forbidden Land Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#3: Feb 16th 2023 at 10:24:18 AM

Blocking people from using the site's search function if they have an adblocker but not telling them why is kind of dumb.

Also, I use an adblocker on my desktop but have the ad free pass and am still not able to search.

Edited by Karxrida on Feb 16th 2023 at 10:24:35 AM

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#4: Feb 16th 2023 at 10:39:54 AM

I'm able to generally search fine on average with an adblocker on. I don't think it's just simply an adblocker in itself. It's likely a combination of that and far more. I use Google Chrome and have no issues.

But Safari on my phone does(and that I used Adblocker on too). There's gotta be more coding to it.

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#5: Feb 16th 2023 at 7:08:31 PM

I use an adblocker and I have no problems searching.

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#6: Feb 19th 2023 at 12:29:50 PM

Well, that's what they used to do. And it was never a secret or something they didn't tell people (which is how I know about it). If you don't pay the site and use an adblocker, they'd block search functionality for you.

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#7: Feb 19th 2023 at 1:34:06 PM

I'd never heard of that being a thing. Not that I use adblocker, but can you cite anywhere this was a confirmed and open practice?

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Rytex Your Friend on the Other Side from Here, There, Everywhere (Ancient one) Relationship Status: Married to the music
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#8: Mar 24th 2023 at 10:35:32 AM

Thread necromancy, sorry.

So, I have paid the site. I do it annually. I've also added TVT to my VPN's bypass list. It's still blocking old search for me, but new search is getting through.

I thought I had solved it, then came back a month later and it was acting up again, and I hadn't noticed that my thread got responses.

Edited by Rytex on Mar 24th 2023 at 12:38:21 PM

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