Well, you Canadians may not have Hulu, Skypein numbers, or full Netflix, but your beer does have a higher alcohol content - this may be a fair trade.
Why are we upvoting this comment? It adds no value.
Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you can't have in Canada
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#62Well, you Canadians may not have Hulu, Skypein numbers, or full Netflix, but your beer does have a higher alcohol content - this may be a fair trade.
yes, but we do have to pay for that extra percent or two. Our beer costs twice the American price.
I got a startup idea, why not compare all the things americans have that canadians don't and vise versa (aside from tech)...haha
who can fund it? I see zero's all over the place
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#63Is Canada any worse off than Europe, Asia, Latin America, or Africa in this regard?
Having moved here from the UK I think Canada is worse off than the UK on balance.
The UK doesn't have Pandora but it does have Spotify, and Canada has neither. Last.fm is gimped in Canada, compared to the service in the UK. Lovefilm in the UK has a wider selection for online streaming than Netflix does in Canada. As pointed out, you can't buy the Kindle natively in Canada (you have to import it from Amazon.com) but you can in the UK.
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#64Looks like Jacan't.
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#65The classic version of this is:
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#66Those are just a few of services unavailable not only in Canada but also in most of the world, which sucks big time and which is one of the main reasons why I want to move to the States, especially Silicon Valley.
A proxy wouldn't fix the issue?
how do you fix the issue of getting Google Voice on your phone with a proxy?
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#67A lot of these issues can be resolved for $5/month and less than that if you're willing to setup your own private server. http://www.unblock-us.com/ lets you access American Netflix, Hulu, Pandora, ESPN3, etc etc. I'm not affiliated with them, but been using the service the past couple of months and it works amazingly. In fact I'm using American Netflix on my Xbox 360 as we speak. $5/month is a heck of a lot cheaper…
Can we get a Google Voice number in Canada with this service?
agilo, you can get a GVoice like account on TellFi (https://tellfi.ca)
disclaimer: I'm a founder there
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#68I know it's not a big name consumer service, but cperciva's Tarsnap backup service is not available to Canadians because he doesn't want to deal with Canadian taxes.
Which is funny since he lives in Canada.
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#69One thing I just hate the most being in Canada: many interesting stuff on Amazon.com does not ship to Canada, and Amazon.ca gets like nothing.
This is a point that I made in my own post. Amazon has been quite restricted in what they can and cannot do in Canada.
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#70A lot of these issues can be resolved for $5/month and less than that if you're willing to setup your own private server. http://www.unblock-us.com/ lets you access American Netflix, Hulu, Pandora, ESPN3, etc etc. I'm not affiliated with them, but been using the service the past couple of months and it works amazingly. In fact I'm using American Netflix on my Xbox 360 as we speak. $5/month is a heck of a lot cheaper…
Do they have some special arrangement with the companies in question?
My brother has a business DSL line, and that was enough for Hulu to decide that he's using a proxy and block him. They've repeatedly called support and support repeatedly told them to "stop using your proxy" (despite the fact that they are using no such thing.) So Hulu isn't at all afraid of false positives, and that kind of blanket ban should be effective unless unblock-us has a deal of some sort worked out.