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Stremio streams not working with Surfshark + TorBox alternative? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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
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[–] 3 points 4 months ago (6 children)

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.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I'll try ToreentsDB, thanks. I was planning on paying for TorBox with a Privacy(.)com virtual card, not my actual bank card.

    Public WiFi is s good idea, and I'll try that. Thanks.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I will add that if you want free streaming, then TorrentsDB works better than Torrentio.

    But if you're paying for a debrid service like Torbox, then it might be redundant to have TorrentsDB and it could clutter up your Stremio UI.

    From some of the setups I've seen out there, people's optimal method is to have AIOStreams add-on in Stremio, then configure AIOStreams with the Debrid Service and their chosen filters. It's supposed to lead to a cleaner and more responsive Stremio UI.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Can TorrentsDB be self-hosted?

    I found a repo on github, but it hasn't been updated in 6 years.

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