# Website unusable on Tor due to AWS

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/website-unusable-on-tor-due-to-aws/80037>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Tags:** web, otherprivacy\
**Created:** [June 12, 2026, 12:35am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/website-unusable-on-tor-due-to-aws/80037 "2026-06-12T00:35:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![waaaaah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b77776/32.png) [@waaaaah](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/waaaaah)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2026, 6:23am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/website-unusable-on-tor-due-to-aws/80037/15 "2026-08-05T06:23:25Z")

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Semi-recently, some Russian users [experienced problems](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/the-inaturalist-app-has-stopped-working-in-russia/77343/) accessing iNat due to what seemed to be ISP-level blocking.

In this kind of situations, using a VPN is usually suggested. Yet somehow nobody seems to realize that Tor is essentially a safer and free VPN. Safer because recording an individual user’s online activity is much harder for Tor nodes’ operators to do than it is for a VPN operator.

In any case, I haven’t used iNat since May due to the blocking. It was nice while it lasted.

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