Edge browser says the website uses outdated or unsafe TLS security settings and won't connect.

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Most of the time (> 90%) I can't connect to any of the websites pages. Starting from Bing, I really had to keep trying new paths to find a starting page to get to this page. According to Microsoft's feedback on the searched problem my Internet TLS settings are good and I need to contact the website to fix the problem. I have TLS  1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 enabled. Please fix your website.

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SA Jacob Maltz
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The most likely cause would be that you are using some proxy or vpn software.   Edge works fine for me see below, so it isn't an obvious website problem.   Do you notice any specific  ads on the page when the problem occurs ?

Anyone else having a similar problem ?

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The most likely cause would be that you are using some proxy or vpn software.   Edge works fine for me see below, so it isn't an obvious website problem.   Do you notice any specific  ads on the page when the problem occurs ?

Anyone else having a similar problem ?

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Thank you for the response (and nice timing today, 1 minute before I checked here), I have this page bookmarked now and can view it ok. Forget being able to see the ads, I can't get to the website - just a white page with the internet error message,

Can’t connect securely to this page

This might be because the site uses outdated or unsafe TLS security settings. If this keeps happening, try contacting the website’s owner.

Try this:

I did have to get a new computer a little while ago with a new installation of Livesafe but am not using a vpn or different internet connection. I'm not sure when exactly the problem started, I know it has been happening for a while but I went a few months without going to the website much. I did have Livesafe on the old computer. I don't know why it isn't working - best guess, I didn't be a lemming and ignored one of the annoying "I am not a robot" popups which I know I had already answered at least once.


Do you, or anyone else, have any other ideas to try?

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SA Jacob Maltz

Are you accessing Seeking Alpha on a work computer ? if so, please ask your IT department to look at it.

If you installed livesafe youself at home, try adding seekingalpha.com to the whitelist e.g. bypassing livesafe and if that solves the problem, please contact livesafe support.

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I am at home. As it turns out McAffee WebAdvisor wasn't working, McAffee support helped replace a corrupted install of WebAdvisor. I have green check marks now. Still can't access seekingalpha.com. I don't know what whitelist you are talking about, I don't see anything called that - just an area to add trusted sites. As it appears my ISP is blocking the website, I haven't talked to them yet as it takes a long time to get through to their support, why should I add seekingalpha.com as a trusted site when my ISP doesn't trust the site?

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User 20378031

Woke up this morning and website is working.

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User 20378031

Well that didn't last long.

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User 20378031

Still having this issue.

I think the error message I see is generated by the Edge browser, though I get the same message using Internet Explorer. If it is beyond the browser from my keyboard I don't know what or where the issue is.

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User 20378031

Ok I tried clicking on the link at this page,

https://feedback.seekingalpha.com/knowledge-bases/2/articles/485-you-keep-telling-me-to-disable-my-ad-blocker-but-im-not-using-one

I didn't see an ad, what happened is I got the unsafe TLS Security settings page this topic is about.