Hi, anyone knows how to solve this problem?
In few words, amazon give me this strange error when I try to buy through tor browser (the card is mine and legit).
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Simple. That subdomain centinelapi is blocking Tor as many sites do. The main domain does not block.
The message is straightforward. Even opening in a new window, as they suggest, gets blocked. Tried via exit from US, CH, and AT.
But this brings up another question. Buying from Amazon through Tor? If the account and card are genuine (and this thread is a real query) then Amazon knows more about you than probably you do. So what is the point to using Tor? Tor is for anonymity.
They (Amazon) know who you are and all your buying history on Amazon. So does the card and probably more than just on Amazon. What you get is a different IP than from your ISP IP.
I equate this to logging to your bank account via Tor or doing your taxes via Tor.
You can pay on Amazon using gift cards that can be bought in physical stores.
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I am using a disposable card and a pick up location for the pick up.
so what knows amazon about me ?
i need basically to appear to amazon a different person of my main account (on a traditional browser on my isp ip)
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OK to both. Bottom line: the subdomain centinelapi is blocking Tor as many sites do.
I just posed the genuine question because the original post was deleted along with with my original reply. Then the post re-appeared and I posted a reply again. It looked fishy but I replied anyway presuming it was genuine.
I hope you pay that gift card with cash.
so basically there is no possibility to buy DIRECTLY through a disposable card on amazon with tor.
any alternative ?
I just need to be a different person to amazon than my main account (that as said Is on my isp ip)
No! That is not what I said. The website centinelapi dot something dot com is blocking your Tor connection. Even if you had your real card and real account and logged into Amazon via Tor that payment connection centinelapi dot something dot com would be blocked.
Enter this on an open tab in Tor: (fix the url. remove the spaces and replace the word dot with .
https: // centinelapi dot cardinalcommerce dot com
You get a message from cloudflare about being blocked
suggestion: get someone else to buy with the gift card
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I mean, it is possible. Just search up “Amazon” on Startpage (the clearnet site, not the .onion one) and click on anonymous view. I’m not sure how trustworthy Startpage is (they’re owned by System1) and how effective their “annonymous view” is, but I think it’s a good way to bypass websites that block Tor exit IP addresses as long as you are using this feature on the Tor browser and are using it properly. In theory, you’ll still be anonymous, even if the website bypasses that proxy or anonymous view itself breaks. It won’t reveal anything since you’re a Tor user, which already makes you anonymous. You still retain the qualities of a Tor user, just through a proxy. I don’t think there will be any deanonymization shenanigans occuring here because the only thing that there is to leak is that you’re using Tor. As long as it’s a gift card bought with cash (privacy.com could lead to deanonymization, but that’s just my opinion) and you access Amazon using anonymous view on the Tor browser (and using Tor properly like not fullscreening Tor), you’ll be able to redeem that card and pay for your items anonymously, even Startpage won’t know who you are.
Although the Tor devs do not recommend that regular people use Tor with a VPN or a proxy, maybe it’ll be ok to use in this case (if they don’t say otherwise) since the proxy is within a website and not an external application outside the Tor browser.
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Use a VPN?
While proprietary, Opera has a “Free VPN” (read: built-in proxy). While I normally use Firefox or Tor Browser, when I need a “VPN” browser I use Opera. Other than that, Opera is scammy as hell, if you need a Chromium just use Vivaldir or Arc or Ungoogled.
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