When I visit the f-droid website, my browser offers me to save a file with a random name. I cannot view the website at all. Any hints?

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I don’t know if this useful, but the link works in the UK… I would be interested to hear if you have any luck with it, sorry I can’t be any use beyond this.

I had the thought of trying a VPN set to other countries if you can, or different DNS settings, but I imagine you already thought of it but can’t think of much else.

Best of luck with it :)

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<drumroll…>Tada!..

It suddenly is working. I didn’t change a thing.

@catloaf@lemm.ee suggested I get suspicious about my country or ISP. Should I worry, now?!.. :-(

Seriously, did the f-droid folks change anything on their end?

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That’s bizarre! Glad it’s working, but what the Dickens made it behave so strangely? I imagine it wouldn’t be anything nefarious, especially since its only fdroid, but… Damn that’s odd!

Glad it solved itself at last :)

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I tried to use some webproxy to test other locations and had the same result - only difference is the name offered for the file to download.

Thanks.

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Curses! That’s incredibly strange

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Just a thought: could it be hsts?

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Ahha! With a blank bowser profile directory it works as expected. It has to be HSTS, right? Now, how do I fix this?

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Bang! Firefox on windows - same thing!

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Check your hosts file.

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Both hosts and resolv.conf are ok.

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I have never had this issue

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