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Buy a small router (like one from gl-inet), set up wireguard to VPN back to your household router. Connect Netflix device to that router.
I'm curious, have people had good experience with these? Any specific model recommendations? They look great!
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"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem." - Gabe Newell, 10+ years ago Once upon a time, Netflix itself was considered the case in point! Then video streaming splintered into a dozen services and now Netflix has decided to make things even more complicated. People don't learn, I guess.
> "Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem." - Gabe Newell, 10+ years ago Yet nearly everyone complaining here today about Netflix is complaining about the price.
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I'm not you so I don't know your situation but the thought of having to manually download and share media whenever my mom calls me up sounds miserable. I'd rather just pay for her subscription.
Manually? There's out of the box ways to automate essentially everything including new requests
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No, it is not "fair enough". Those aren't the same situations. You need to pay a second ISP bill because that requires physical infrastructure to be laid down and maintained. Same with utilities and the toaster. Once you have the network connection you can access Netflix just fine. Unless they place an arbitrary restriction on it.
Me thinks you haven't given much (any?) consideration to how much physical infrastructure Netflix has sprinkled around so that streaming works well.
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No, it is not "fair enough". Those aren't the same situations. You need to pay a second ISP bill because that requires physical infrastructure to be laid down and maintained. Same with utilities and the toaster. Once you have the network connection you can access Netflix just fine. Unless they place an arbitrary restriction on it.
By that logic, everyone on earth can share a single account! Perhaps you didn’t know, but Netflix operates one of the biggest CDNs on the planet: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
Netflix is hiring roles for digital ads teams where they specifically mention wanting to push ads on the platform to subscribers. Netflix got captured and is now in the process of killing its core user experiences paying customers enjoy. It's inevitable poor performance as a result of these unfriendly changes and the terrible content they create has enacted death by a thousand cuts we see for each one of the online p…
They are dense as $##&. 15 years and almost no innovation except a slightly worse catalogue and a reduction of genres....and now ads. quality! mwah! beautiful! I want the product team working on my tombstones...they know death
The one saving grace is that all of this streaming mess is still a better experience overall than cable and satellite TV.
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Manually? There's out of the box ways to automate essentially everything including new requests
There's a lot of things I'd want to address beyond the tech: I'd want the videos to have good subtitles, to actually be what was requested and not have surprise porn or whatever, for examples. I don't think these are things I could automate. Netflix is likely to include subtitles and will never return video that wasn't requested. I dunno, it's work the few bucks a month.
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I upvoted this because it's technically true, but common "legal" use-cases involve format shifting and that puts you out of bounds straight away, depending on your jurisdiction. Even if your area allows it for "backups" or interop, you're making it available in multiple locations at once. I'm sure it wouldn't take much to demonstrate this was some sort of performance or other act explicitly disallowed by the EULA. Bu…
Couldn't the same be said about allowing others to use your Netflex account? I think Netflix is licensing you access to their library, and not that friend who uses your account.
I wonder how the “fingerprinting” will deal with users who access Netflix primarily through a VPN or relay service. On Netflix’s side, they would see multiple accounts accessing the service via the same IP ranges.
Way back when Netflix was mostly still non-original content and movies, the US had a far superior selection compared to Canada, so a lot of us Canadians used VPNs to get access to US content.
Around 2015 Netflix clamped down hard on VPNs, such that I couldn't even use them to watch any content, let alone content from specific countries. I tried a few options and all failed, so I assumed most other people gave up with me.