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Why am I getting this message today, on half the webpages I'm trying to visit?


 
Posted : 01/10/2021 9:29 am
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Have you just updated / changed the browser you are using?


 
Posted : 01/10/2021 9:31 am
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Nope, happening on Chrome and Safari.


 
Posted : 01/10/2021 9:33 am
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Something about clocks.


 
Posted : 01/10/2021 9:34 am
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I haven't heard of any issues from any SSL providers today. What sites?


 
Posted : 01/10/2021 9:35 am
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ermm, Bikepacking.com, theradavist, offroad.cc, wizardworks so far

My usual morning coffee perusal ;o)


 
Posted : 01/10/2021 9:37 am
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Posted : 01/10/2021 9:38 am
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Well, you can be pretty sure Google’s certificate is correct.

Check your computer’s date&time are correct.


 
Posted : 01/10/2021 9:40 am
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Date and time is correct, have tried restarting too.

Seems to be an issue with my Macbook, as work one is ok and phone too.


 
Posted : 01/10/2021 9:59 am
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offroad.cc

Weird, just tried that site, out of curiosity, and it forwards to some random site running some sort of phishing scam:

Not even sure how it managed to run as I run script blocker, so random sites can't run javacode in my browser without being whitelisted....

[url= https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51538759574_8a28bb0bce.jp g" target="_blank">https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51538759574_8a28bb0bce.jp g"/> [/img][/url][url= https://flic.kr/p/2mwiBD1 ]Capture[/url] by [url= https://www.flickr.com/photos/brf/ ]Ben Freeman[/url], on Flickr


 
Posted : 01/10/2021 10:07 am
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sorry, should be off.road.cc


 
Posted : 01/10/2021 10:08 am
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Hmmm, Macbook is 5 years old this month - conspiracy theory?


 
Posted : 01/10/2021 10:16 am
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Hmmm, Macbook is 5 years old this month – conspiracy theory?

Mine is from 2010 and still works fine....


 
Posted : 01/10/2021 10:17 am
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Could be this - https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/30/lets_encrypt_xero_slack_outages/


 
Posted : 01/10/2021 10:57 am
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That's interesting. The error message for Bikepacking.com has now changed to "site cannot be reached"


 
Posted : 01/10/2021 11:11 am
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That’s interesting. The error message for Bikepacking.com has now changed to “site cannot be reached”

After my last experience I won't be trying any more of your website suggestions!


 
Posted : 01/10/2021 11:56 am
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I'm getting the same this morning on an increasing number of sites. I'm using Chrome on an old Window 7 laptop. Clock and date are correct.


 
Posted : 01/10/2021 12:51 pm
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I've got a fix for that.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10


 
Posted : 01/10/2021 12:57 pm
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Weird, just tried that site, out of curiosity, and it forwards to some random site running some sort of phishing scam:

That doesn't happen to me because I'm using a not-to-be-mentioned-technology-for-webbrowsers which helpfully blocked the entire site from loading. Don't get that with a P 😉


 
Posted : 01/10/2021 1:11 pm
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Still not fixed. Must be an issue with my macbook as every other device is fine.


 
Posted : 02/10/2021 1:23 pm
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I'm reasonably sure onewheelgood is on the money. I know nothing about Macs but, I suspect you need to need their root cert updating on your browser. Is there some version of Windows Update for Apple, or can you update Safari? Or, use a different browser in the interim until it catches up?


 
Posted : 02/10/2021 1:52 pm
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or can you update Safari? Or, use a different browser in the interim until it catches up?

Firefox, Brave, Ghostery or DuckDuckGo, with DuckDuckGo as search? And use DuckDuckGo as search in Safari, which is what I do in iOS. And start using a VPN as well.


 
Posted : 02/10/2021 7:16 pm
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Have a look in Settings. Have you got a pending update?


 
Posted : 02/10/2021 7:53 pm
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I have been getting the same problem on my old Mac. I suspect Safari.

Would Firefox fix it?

My computer clock is automatically set to Apple Europe (time.euro.apple.com.)

Could this be another Brexshit benefit? 🙂


 
Posted : 04/10/2021 11:43 am
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Just seen this, I had a simular issue on Saturday, appeared to be related to Cloudflare DNS. It sorted itself out pretty quickly.


 
Posted : 04/10/2021 1:11 pm

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