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Re: Show HN: Easily connect to a VPN in a country of your choice

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Post by rodrigogs »

pixelHD wrote: post #8
lbolla wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To watch Netflix for instance.

i get your point, but connecting to a random country won't be of much help though.

You can choose the country by passing -c argument.

Example: easyvpn -c JP

Re: Show HN: Easily connect to a VPN in a country of your choice

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Post by wale »

lbolla wrote: post #3
simlevesque wrote: post #2

> Automatically connect you to a random VPN in a country of your choice. Why would someone do such a thing?

To watch Netflix for instance.

Netflix is able to detect you're using a VPN, and advices to switch back to enjoy its services, I'm sure. At least I got that alert recently. So is there another bypass?

Re: Show HN: Easily connect to a VPN in a country of your choice

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Post by FilterSweep »

wale wrote: post #12
lbolla wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To watch Netflix for instance.

Netflix is able to detect you're using a VPN, and advices to switch back to enjoy its services, I'm sure. At least I got that alert recently. So is there another bypass?

Just throwing it out there - are you sure there isn't a session cookie tied to your login still on your machine? Or, am I completely wrong and you're just limited to the country's offerings by your location on registration?

Re: Show HN: Easily connect to a VPN in a country of your choice

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Post by phit_ »

FilterSweep wrote: post #13
wale wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Netflix is able to detect you're using a VPN, and advices to switch back to enjoy its services, I'm sure. At least I got that alert recently. So is there another bypass?

Just throwing it out there - are you sure there isn't a session cookie tied to your login still on your machine? Or, am I completely wrong and you're just limited to the country's offerings by your location on registration?

they block known vpn and vps ip spaces, it's been a cat and mouse game for the past few years between vpn providers and netflix

currently working providers can be usually found on /r/NetflixByProxy/

Re: Show HN: Easily connect to a VPN in a country of your choice

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Post by kobayashi »

johnward wrote: post #14
simlevesque wrote: post #2

> Automatically connect you to a random VPN in a country of your choice. Why would someone do such a thing?

Not wanting your ISP to know what your traffic looks like?

...and wanting some other, probably less trustworthy org to know what the traffic looks like

Re: Show HN: Easily connect to a VPN in a country of your choice

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Post by zhan_eg »

simlevesque wrote: post #2

> Automatically connect you to a random VPN in a country of your choice. Why would someone do such a thing?

The source of the VPN servers is vpngate.net - an academic research that started 2013, at Graduate School of University of Tsukuba, Japan. From their about [0] page:

   - You can get through the government's firewall to browse restricted web sites (e.g. YouTube).
   - You can disguise your IP address to hide your identity while surfing the Internet.
   - You can protect yourself by utilizing its strong encryption while using public Wi-Fi.
The list of servers (on the main url) gives throughput and others stats and you can support them by creating a node [1].

They use SoftEther for VPN server - does someone have any experience with it?

[0] http://www.vpngate.net/en/about_overview.aspx [1] http://www.vpngate.net/en/join.aspx

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