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Outside of the US, content on Netflix varies from "bad" to "meh".
by rospaya 10y ago
Outside of the US, content on Netflix varies from "bad" to "meh".
- pluma 10y agoTo be fair, so do most competitors. In Germany Netflix is "meh" but the only half-decent alternative is Amazon Prime, which isn't better at all.
- distances 10y agoAre there English subtitles in Amazon Prime in Germany? Subtitles are a deal-breaker for me, so I've been sourcing my movies from a local brick-and-stone DVD rental after Netflix clamped down on the VPN and DNS workarounds. Surprisingly the series offering in Netflix is quite OK in this regard though.
- pluma 10y agoNot always. Also, there seems to be only one audio track per product, so e.g. "Mr Robot" and "Mr Robot [OV]" are two different products (you can't just switch half-way through an episode like you can with a DVD or Netflix). This is possibly infuriating if you actually rent/buy a TV show and find out you either can't keep up with the original voices or the dubbed audio is unbearable.
- mixedCase 10y ago>To be fair, so do most competitors. Not these "pirates" guys. They seem to have all of the good stuff and some more, so they outcompete Netflix outside the US quite well.
- eatbitseveryday 10y agoWhy not use VPN services like F-Secure + Netflix to access movies? Is Netflix blocking them? I imagine they should not be, because of the recent ISP-throttling scandals.
- greenshackle 10y agoNot sure about F-Secure specifically but Netflix has recently been blocking DNS and VPN region-switching.
- ddavidn 10y agoAllegedly, they have gone on some banhammer-binges recently for VPN users, as well as blocking many forms of VPN. Even spinning up a VPS in a datacenter in your own state and using a VPN may not work for you. I assume copyright holders have prompted this regulation, because I doubt Netflix cares too much what you watch.
- probably_wrong 10y agoThere are several levels of answers. Is Netflix blocking VPNs? Yes. They didn't use to, but they started doing it around a month or so ago. Some VPNs could route around it, some couldn't. Alternative answer: using a VPN is against Netflix' TOS, so it's not really different from regular piracy. You could argue that you pay for convenience, but you could also argue that if you are going to open yourself to a lawsuit, you might not want to do it with your personal credit card.