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The same is happening here in Australia talking to people.
by mrmondo 11y ago
The same is happening here in Australia talking to people.
- cylinder 11y agoHow does that blocking even work? How does nflx know I'm using a VPN?
- superuser2 11y agoMany users on the same IP, IP is registered to a cloud hosting company, etc. They'll never have perfect detection but you can do pretty well without much effort.
- cylinder 11y agoare there VPN out there where you can purchase a static IP of your own for it?
- superuser2 11y agoYou can run your own VPN server on a VPS, but Netflix is (rumored to be) blocking the IP address ranges of DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS, etc.
- obrit 11y agoI tried running OpenVPN on DigitalOcean and AWS and had no luck with Netflix on either host.
- etatoby 11y agoI tried proxying through a server in Germany (in a big, well known hosting provider) and I got the same message, both with ssh -D and pptpd. So they're either reading signatures left on the packets by various VPN / proxy technologies (fragmentation and other obscure metrics), or they're blocking the IP ranges of major hosting providers, or both.
- ynezz 11y agoThey don't use anything sophisticated, it's just IP range blacklist. Hint: try different VPS provider, there's plenty out there...
- goodcanadian 11y agoI used to run OpenVPN on Linode, but that was blocked a while back.
- omegant 11y agoStartup idea, airbnb of VPNs. Normal people distributing a limited number of other peoples, VPNs for a small fare.
- thesehands 11y agobetter yet, lets record netflix to VHS and mail the copies around the world. Block that Neflix! /s
- sjwright 11y agoGood idea, except most consumer internet connections don't have sufficiently fast upstream performance.
- malka 11y agowon't work. Netflix does not simply blocks IP, I'm pretty sure they detect behavior from account, and then locks them when the behavior looks like a VPN user (country hopping, etc.)
- nissehulth 11y agoThat is pretty much how Hola works. Except that most Hola users don't even know that they contribute their bandwidth.
- iamlolz 11y agoYes I'm cancelling my account as I haven't used it in 2 months.(since the vpn I used was blocked)
- 2muchcoffeeman 11y agoGetflix still mostly works. They added new proxies but many of the old ones don't work.