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>Actually, most of the time your VPN is just going to be blocked entirely by the service Doesn't seem to be the case 'most of the time' for non-free VPNs or at
by Tenoke 5y ago
>Actually, most of the time your VPN is just going to be blocked entirely by the service
Doesn't seem to be the case 'most of the time' for non-free VPNs or at least mine. You can definitely access YouTube videos available abroad or BBC iPlayer or whatever. I'm on VPN a 3rd of the time and it's only very occasionally I have issues. Sure, maybe it's worse with some services but not 'most of the time'.
- eptcyka 5y agoYep, but Amazon for instance blocks first party content when accessing it via a VPN. Some delivery services block my VPN outright.
- saurik 5y agoI am doing an implied integral here over over all random VPN services and servers, as the person I am replying to said that "any" VPN would work. If you have found one that seems to consistently work for the BBC--and based on their efforts against Disney+, I bet NordVPN would work?--you are now a single data point: if you search for BBC blocked VPN on Google, however, you will see that it is an extremely common issue that the BBC blacklists VPNs from accessing their service. (FWIW, I could accept an argument that I am not "weighting" my certainly-informal statement well on actual usage figures: if NordVPN and ExpressVPN are even the only two VPNs that work well against the BBC, maybe they are alone a considerable percentage of the market. I am pushing back on the idea that "any" VPN would work, and so I am looking more at the idea of choosing a random brand, equally weighted.)
- Tenoke 5y agoActually, you are right. I just tried again and now only 1 of my ips works for BBC so they are clearly getting more aggressive (or my provider hasn't been changing them as often recently).
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoFoxyProxy guarantees BBC iplayer access and gives you other servers when it stops working.