Two normally reliable sites have not worked on Windows desktop browser for the last week. Anyone else experiencing the same issue or know whats up?

by condocoupon

United States TV 247 and United States TV Go are two well known and pretty reliable free IPTV sites but they haven’t worked for me using W10 FF75 browser for a week now. I connect through NordVPN and the video player returns a “problem playing protected content” error message no matter what channel I select. Tv Go works fine on my iPad using Nord, haven’t tried 247. What gives? Both sites would have sporadic issues from time to time but for them not to work for a week seems unusual.

Update - I was able to get video to play in Brave browser with the guards set to off. I am not entirely comfortable streaming from these sites in that way. My FF browser instance is pretty locked down with plugins and about:config settings. I did troubleshoot the plugins with no luck will do the same in the settings.

hariboholmes

IME these free services are just not reliable.

Why do people struggle with free services when a decent service with thousands of channels is so cheap?

Sylocule

Overloaded because more people are at home and trying to use the service?

brainstormer77

Is a VPN required for them to work for you?

What could be different in Windows vs iOS?

Think of these: antivirus, browser plugins, firewall, dns settings, different internet source.

Try creating a new Windows user to test Try hotspot from phone to Windows

degseggs

Could be TLS deprecation initiated by the DNS provider or website hoster that is not complete. If lower versions are no longer supported.