Cannot access GTAM on Android

Jayell

Jayell

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I've no access to GTAM for the last twenty four hours or so on my Android phone using Tapatalk, Google Chrome, or Firefox. Curiously, I'm posting this message on Opera with no trouble. I get the same result using cellular data or home wifi.

Perhaps someone can investigate? Thank you.
 
Seems to work fine for me. Google Chrome on Android, Public Mobile cellular data.

Also fine with Brave browser.

Try clearing your cache, and logging off and logging back on.

Any custom extensions on Chrome/Firefox? Maybe try turning them off?

Is there an error message if you leave the browser alone for a while after typing in the URL?
 
Weird it seems a few users are having this problem.
I mostly use GTAM on desktop. Just tried Tapatalk on iPhone, it works.
 
Clear your browsers cache and cookies. This almost always fixes things.
 
Lightcycle said:
Seems to work fine for me. Google Chrome on Android, Public Mobile cellular data.

Also fine with Brave browser.

Try clearing your cache, and logging off and logging back on.

Any custom extensions on Chrome/Firefox? Maybe try turning them off?

Is there an error message if you leave the browser alone for a while after typing in the URL?
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Thanks for your advice.

I have done all the these things. No browser extensions. No joy.

Tapatalk still works with other forums, but not GTAM, though I am receiving notifications of new GTAM posts, but I can't read them.

Screenshot from Chrome:

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Are you (GTAM) spam blocking too aggressively with cookies, ip's, etc? Or trying to circumvent spam/ad blockers

I wonder if a user changing some setting at their end, nothing malicious, but gets picked up as something on GTAM.
 
sburns said:
Are you (GTAM) spam blocking too aggressively with cookies, ip's, etc? Or trying to circumvent spam/ad blockers
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Not that I know of. I've made no changes on my end.

I've discovered I'm unable to raise GTAM on any browser with the phone or desktop on home wifi. The only success I've had is with Opera on the phone over cellular.
 
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Jayell said:
Not that I know of. I've made no changes on my end.

I've discovered I'm unable to raise GTAM on any browser with the phone or desktop on home wifi. The only success I've had is with Opera on the phone over cellular.
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Could have been a indirect change, like a browser update, plugin etc, or even the ip tables on the ISP, anyhow something like that could be triggering something at the GTAM site and now it's blocking you etc.

Just a guess as I'm not sure what is implemented site side.
It is curious your home setup isn't working but your mobile is (kinda), they would have separate ip's and use different ISP.

I'm sure the boyz are on it.
 
Jayell said:
I've no access to GTAM for the last twenty four hours or so on my Android phone using Tapatalk, Google Chrome, or Firefox. Curiously, I'm posting this message on Opera with no trouble. I get the same result using cellular data or home wifi.

Perhaps someone can investigate? Thank you.
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So, just to clarify, this is just one single device you’re having the issue on, not multiple devices?

If it’s just a single device (your cellphone) and it’s not happening across multiple devices but is happening across multiple connection methods (wifi or cellular), unfortunately it almost 100% means that it is the device itself, not anything on the GTAM side.

The fact it works with opera is possibly because opera uses several different connection options that route you through their own servers – if you have the traffic saver/ad blocker or their built-in VPN turned on all, of your browsing data goes through one of their services directly, so this may be creating a tunnel through whatever is blocking things on your phone itself.

Have you installed any dodgy apps that purport to do “privacy blocking” or “ad blocker” or anything like that recently, or is there a chance that another app you loaded has quietly installed a VPN profile of some sort by chance? I have seen this happen on android phones where dodgy apps covertly install a VPN profile to redirect traffic for snooping purposes.

Go into your settings, search for the VPN profile settings and see if there is anything listed in there and report back please.
 
PrivatePilot said:
So, just to clarify, this is just one single device you’re having the issue on, not multiple devices?

If it’s just a single device (your cellphone) and it’s not happening across multiple devices but is happening across multiple connection methods (wifi or cellular), unfortunately it almost 100% means that it is the device itself, not anything on the GTAM side.

The fact it works with opera is possibly because opera uses several different connection options that route you through their own servers – if you have the traffic saver/ad blocker or their built-in VPN turned on all, of your browsing data goes through one of their services directly, so this may be creating a tunnel through whatever is blocking things on your phone itself.

Have you installed any dodgy apps that purport to do “privacy blocking” or “ad blocker” or anything like that recently, or is there a chance that another app you loaded has quietly installed a VPN profile of some sort by chance? I have seen this happen on android phones where dodgy apps covertly install a VPN profile to redirect traffic for snooping purposes.

Go into your settings, search for the VPN profile settings and see if there is anything listed in there and report back please.
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Excellent point - if Opera is routing you through the TOR network for whatever reason, expect to be hit with a series of re-captcha checks or outright blocked by some sites.
 
POWERMAN said:
Excellent point - if Opera is routing you through the TOR network for whatever reason, expect to be hit with a series of re-captcha checks or outright blocked by some sites.
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The other side of that is it'll route you through any odd connectivity issues like what seems to be happening in this case when the "normal" (non tunnelled/non VPN) connection is being blocked for some reason.

The difficulty is finding out why that's happening. And nobody wants to hear "wipe and reset your phone", so it comes down to troubleshooting bite by bite lol.
 
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