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Netflix hammers cross-border watchers and there may be no way out

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Re: Netflix hammers cross-border watchers and there may be no way out

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I doubt anyone on HN would pay for a service like UFlix when the DIY alternative is much more efficient. For less cost we use our own US-based vps, running something like the shadowsocks proxy. It's the same rig we found to work the best in China against the great firewall. With its own dedicated IP, it would likely be cost-inefficient for Netflix to detect without blocking an entire range of legitimate IP addresses.

They've blocked pretty much all hosting providers and vpn provider's ip ranges.

unless you get an ip in a residential or possibly university range... you're pretty screwed.

Re: Netflix hammers cross-border watchers and there may be no way out

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This won't work longer term if you also watch shows from your home region. A former Netflix engineer and I were talking about enforcing this sort of thing and people who "hop regions" always watch shows from different regions at different times. That flags your account, and your "home region" is known from your billing address and the "other" regions will get locked out. From what I understood they were still working…

Huh? If you have US billing, you can only watch the US catalog, and you need a US IP, right? But that's fine with the OP, that's why he is using his friends broadband anyway. The US catalog is what you want.

The IP is the important bit.

Source: I had a bit of netflix subscription when I moved to Norway. Paid with US billing. Not everything was available when I switched countries.

Re: Netflix hammers cross-border watchers and there may be no way out

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Netflix has been messing with settings in their system that are breaking the experience for users in the middle of the US too. For the last two weekends I've been getting strange experiences accessing their site from my house. My PC works fine and can access content. My cell phone, connected to the same home wireless randomly gets messages "You are using a proxy and cannot access this content". Testing both units on…

Do you have IPv6 anywhere -- I have found that they think that my IPv6 address is a proxy, and the IPv4 is OK.

Yep, I have an HE tunnel. That's probably it. Thanks.

Re: Netflix hammers cross-border watchers and there may be no way out

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I doubt anyone on HN would pay for a service like UFlix when the DIY alternative is much more efficient. For less cost we use our own US-based vps, running something like the shadowsocks proxy. It's the same rig we found to work the best in China against the great firewall. With its own dedicated IP, it would likely be cost-inefficient for Netflix to detect without blocking an entire range of legitimate IP addresses.

They've blocked pretty much all hosting providers and vpn provider's ip ranges. unless you get an ip in a residential or possibly university range... you're pretty screwed.

What about something like n2n / Hamachi / Peervpn / Freelan / IPOP / your friend in the other country borrowing you their account and hosting an OpenVPN endpoint on their home network?

Re: Netflix hammers cross-border watchers and there may be no way out

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Huh? If you have US billing, you can only watch the US catalog, and you need a US IP, right? But that's fine with the OP, that's why he is using his friends broadband anyway. The US catalog is what you want.

It probably is fine, unless he wants to watch something that is only available in his local, non-US, region. As far as Netflix is concerned, if you pay in the US and you stream from a US IP address, you're from the US region. But the question for the OP is, is that enough? As far as I can tell Netflix doesn't care at all about people who only stream from one region but they do care about people who stream from multip…

> unless he wants to watch something that is only available in his local, non-US, region

Not sure there's anything good that's UK-only. It's usually the other way around with all the good shows being available in the US.

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