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Until recently I could watch it using my VPN from Hong Kong, but recently they've been blocking access from VPNs. I should set up my own VPN again, instead of
by matthewrudy 11y ago
Until recently I could watch it using my VPN from Hong Kong,
but recently they've been blocking access from VPNs.
I should set up my own VPN again, instead of using paid for services.
Edit: I can't decide if that's a good or bad thing,
given I've never paid for a UK TV licence, but for official purposes I still live at my parents' house, who do pay.
- vmlinuz 11y agoYou need to get a better VPN my friend - mine still works!
- matthewrudy 11y agoIts expressvpn, and I just (accidentally) paid for another year.
- lorenzhs 11y agoYou could spin up a DigitalOcean droplet in the London region around once a week and use youtube-dl to download the bits you're interested in. Cost would be like $0.10 per month. You could even make a script that sets up an OpenVPN droplet and automatically tears it down, would still be very very cheap.
- matthewrudy 11y agoI ran openvpn on digital ocean before. But then I wanted one in the UK sometimes, and in the US sometimes. And then I tried to watch HKTV from Taiwan, so needed one in HK. So I ended up with ExpressVPN. But... let's see what happens this year. Especially with netflix!
- lorenzhs 11y agoIf you set it up manually each time, sure, that won't work very well. But you should be able to automate that - create the config (CA and everything) once and then just spin up a droplet via the API, install the packages, copy and unpack the config. I don't think you'd need to customize more than the sever's IP address in the config. I built something similar with sshuttle (way easier than OpenVPN) two years ago, it's at https://github.com/lorenzhs/instavpn https://github.com/lorenzhs/instavpn but it uses the old DO API and is rather hacky. sshuttle also isn't very good for streaming.
- matthewrudy 11y agoI'll have a go! Thanks for the suggestion.