Thread: Tethering and Wifi Hotspot web access blocked on T-Mobile US
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npsimons is offline npsimons
2013-11-20 , 16:56
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#17
Originally Posted by jackburton View Post
I had the same issue weeks ago while using my Nexus 7 via bluetooth PAN. I worked around the issue by using Opera Mobile instead of Chrome. They must filter by agent string.

Luckily for me it stopped filtering the Chrome user agent all of a sudden. Maybe the proxies are set up different dependent on the location of the towers.
I've never bumped into this, but then again, I tunnel through SSH (to add encryption and compression) to my server running squid as a caching/ad-filtering/anonymizing proxy that sets my user-agent to "By allowing me access, you waive all rights and policies regarding my access."

Of course, just the tunneling through SSH probably keeps them from figuring out I'm tethering (and I don't do it very often).