Issues accessing some external quiz sites from nixos?

Hey everyone,

I’ve been running nixos on my laptop and noticed something odd when trying to access certain interactive websites. One example I was testing is a telenor quiz portal.

On nixos, the page either loads very slowly or some parts of the quiz don’t respond at all, while the same page seems to work fine on other operating systems. Sometimes I also get weird network or certificate-related warnings in the browser, which makes me wonder if it’s related to how nixos handles SSL, DNS, or system certificates.

Has anyone else seen similar issues with sites like this on nixos? I’m curious whether this is more about the OS networking stack, browser sandboxing, or how the site itself is delivering its content. Any tips on debugging or fixing this would be really appreciated.

More likely to be browser related than most things. I opened it on my system and the page popped right up as I would expect a page to load. What browser do you use?

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It could also be DNS, which would then more likely be DHCP and OP using DoH on other systems or such.