2 ms·
Having used one of these shady proxy pool services once in the past for some (pretty harmless) scraping (not especially proud of it), I seriously doubt a servic
by oefrha 7y ago
Having used one of these shady proxy pool services once in the past for some (pretty harmless) scraping (not especially proud of it), I seriously doubt a service like that is good enough for video streaming. Usually half of the proxies in the pool are high ping or unreachable, and the other half are only valid for at most a few minutes. Maybe I just didn’t pay enough for the gold tier or something.
Edit: Another comment pointed out that maybe only the front domain is geoblocked, but not the video CDN domains. That would make sense. Now that I think about it, youtube-dl also has a --geo-verification-proxy option that works in the same way.
- stordoff 7y agoAssuming a direct business relationship, there's no reason they couldn't hand-pick or filter out the good hosts, and then put the rest in the general pool.
- brianpgordon 7y agoIt works perfectly for me. https://i.imgur.com/PFITtZT.png https://i.imgur.com/PFITtZT.png
- Spy520 7y agoHe wasn’t talking about NordVPN speeds. He was talking about the sort of services offered by Oxylabs, Honeygain, PacketStream and other similar proxy services.
- brianpgordon 7y agoWell isn't the whole article asserting that NordVPN is routing traffic through residential endpoints to confuse would-be VPN blockers? I thought that the allegation is that there's no distinction between the Oxylabs network and the NordVPN service.
- oefrha 7y agoThe allegation is that they use a Oxylabs-like service for disneyplus.com specifically. Your speed test result using a Total Servers Solutions LLC connection to a non-disneyplus.com destination is irrelevant to that allegation.
- oefrha 7y ago198.8.81.74 belongs to AS46562 Total Server Solutions L.L.C. Not a residential IP, so it has nothing to do with the practice suggested by TFA.