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Getting In

When a streaming site will not load it is almost never the site being down. It is your provider blocking the address, or your browser showing you an old saved copy. Both are a one minute fix once you know where to look.

Start here

DNS

The site will not load at all

Change your DNS. This beats the most common block and takes about a minute. It is free and it is the first thing to try.

VPN

New DNS did not help

Turn on a VPN and pick a nearby country. This gets you past the harder blocks that DNS alone cannot.

CACHE

It loads but looks broken or out of date

Force a full reload. Your browser is showing you an old saved copy of a page we have since changed.

DOMAIN

You cannot find the address at all

Get the current domain from our official channel. Never trust a random search result or a link in a comment.

Why sites seem to go down

Your internet provider can be told to block a website. The cheapest way for them to do it is at the DNS layer, the phone book that turns a name like the site into the actual server address. They simply leave the number out of the book, so your browser cannot find the door even though the building is fine.

The server itself is up and serving everyone else. You are just being handed a bad phone book. Swap the phone book and the site comes back. That is what changing your DNS does, and it is why it fixes the majority of dead-site reports.

Fix one: change your DNS

Free, fast, and the first thing to reach for. Pick any one of these. Cloudflare is the easiest if you just want it done.

Cloudflare

The fastest option and the easiest to set up. Their free 1.1.1.1 app flips it on with a single tap on a phone.

1.1.1.1

Primary 1.1.1.1 · Secondary 1.0.0.1

Quad9

Run by a non-profit and blocks known malware domains along the way. A safe default if you are unsure.

9.9.9.9

Primary 9.9.9.9 · Secondary 149.112.112.112

Google

The one everybody knows. Works everywhere, keeps more logs than the other two.

8.8.8.8

Primary 8.8.8.8 · Secondary 8.8.4.4

Where to put it

Android Settings, Network, Private DNS, then enter one.one.one.one. Or just install the 1.1.1.1 app and toggle it on.
iPhone Install the 1.1.1.1 app and turn it on. iOS buries the manual DNS box behind each Wi-Fi network, so the app is far quicker.
Windows Settings, Network, your adapter, Edit DNS, switch to Manual, then type the two numbers into the IPv4 fields.
Router The set-and-forget option. Change it once in your router admin page and every device in the house is covered at once.

Fix two: a VPN

Some providers go further than the phone book and block the address itself. When new DNS does not get you in, a VPN will. It routes your connection through another country first, so your provider only sees a tunnel and cannot tell where you are actually going.

Install a reputable one, connect to a nearby country for speed, and load the site again. Free VPNs work in a pinch but are slower and often pay for themselves by selling your browsing, so a cheap paid one is worth it if you use it a lot. You do not need the most expensive plan, you need one that stays connected.

Fix three: force a reload

If the site loads but looks broken, half-styled, or stuck on an old layout, that is not a block. Your browser saved a copy of the page to load it faster, and we have since pushed a new version the old copy does not match. The fix is to throw that copy away and pull a fresh one.

Windows / Linux Ctrl + Shift + R
Mac Cmd + Shift + R
Phone Pull down to refresh, or clear site data below

Still stubborn? Open the site in a private window to rule the cache out entirely, or clear site data for the domain in your browser settings. One of those always wins.

Tried everything and still nothing?

If new DNS, a VPN, and a fresh reload all failed, it might genuinely be on our end. Before you assume the worst, check restatus.me. It shows in real time whether the site, the API, and the players are actually up right now. If it says everything is green there, the problem is still on your side and one of the three fixes above will get you in.

Stay on the real site

  • Bookmark the real domain the moment you land on a working one. It saves you hunting for it next time.
  • Clone and typo domains exist to farm ad money and push fake apps. If a link came from a search result or a random comment, treat it as fake until proven otherwise.
  • The only address worth trusting is the current one posted in our official announcement channel.
  • We will never ask you to install a player, a codec, or an app just to watch. Any page that does is not us. Close it.

One more habit worth keeping: run an ad blocker like uBlock Origin. The video players are third-party and will throw popups without one. Nothing a player window tells you to install is ever real.

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