Hi there. One of the major advertising things I see with pretty much all VPNs is the ability to watch stuff from different countries on their streaming service. Well, if I move my VPN to some other country, and go to Netflix or Prime, they know I’m behind VPN . They all say this I’ve literally never been able to watch anything from the country like advertised.
Am I doing something wrong?
Well, in this case those VPN ads isn’t lying, technically speaking. Stream service just find a way to detect VPN by using a list of known IP address commonly used as VPN. You just have to find a server that isn’t flagged as a VPN (yet).
Never believe advertisement outright. Ever. You’ll find that most advertisement are just like this.
Streamers block the vpn servers. So you have to play the game to find ones that are not blocked )generally newer /higher number ones.
It does work just a bit finicky
Some VPNs offer obfuscated servers which may help.
So next time you better have some trial before you pay. Even so, you can be sure whether the streaming provider block it tomorrow. That’s a cat and mouse game.
Am I doing something wrong?
The only thing you and many other people do wrong is to trust the advertising.
Most VPN providers are only interested in one thing, and that is to get you to sign up for a long contract period. They usually offer you a very low monthly price if you sign up for 3 - 4 years. When you discover you can’t use it for streaming content from other countries they give you bullshit when you complain.
No VPN provider can promise you that you can stream from another country with their service. If they do they are lying.
Websites including streaming companies are in their full right to decide what kind of visitors they like to accept. If they don’t want visitors using a VPN it’s their right to deny those visitors. It’s nothing VPN providers can do about that unless they own the streaming service.
Its kinda funny, when I do’t use VPN netflix thinks I’m using a vpn. I think with VPN you have to set the standard and use it non-stop
Every subscription streaming service I have requires I bypass the VPN. Years ago they might not have flagged the IP addresses yet.
Use someone’s home connection like Mysterium VPN which leverages this. A cheap vps with Wireguard could also work.
Look for vpn provider that uses residential IPs, not data center IPs
Well if i’m running a platform there will surely be a program to block IPs with hundreds of accounts and watch thousands of hours per day. You need a VPS based VPN to do that reliably because you will have your own IP like a normal user.
You clearly didn’t read enough about that vpn then - I would get your refund and search up for the right vpn provider. You can get DNS changer for the same ability to gain access to streaming services
Choosing the wrong VPN is all. I can see any region of Netflix I want.
Why would you want one to begin with?? You can get american e-sim and virtual address with no problem.
I can use american disney prime hulu etc and i dont need american address etc. Decen vpn does works for everything.
No VPN can solve your problem if your Prime or Disney account is not associated with a US billing address.
I’m glad someone explained this instead of just calling the guy and idiot or something like the other post.
Yes, it’s a matter of Youtube and others just blocking all requests from specific IP addresses, and those IP addresses not having someone with enough moxy to complain. That’s because if they complain, it would be obvious to anyone investigating the complaint these servers exist primarily to route around country distribution rules.
The advertisers get around it by saying “can” as in “there is a possibility” and while this approach worked easily in the past, now it is harder to make it work. No advertiser wants to talk about how it’s effectively too hard to do for most people seeing the ads.
It is easy to complain, but keep in mind that in Youtube’s eyes, it’s not even an item they’ll question. They only bought the right to distribute some shows to some regions, and if they are caught distributing them to additional regions, they’ll have no choice in the show being pulled from their library and they will likely get sued for breach of contract.
Youtube can argue they didn’t do all of the work distributing to unauthorized regions, but the media owners see it differently; Youtube didn’t attempt to protect against even trivial redistribution into unlicensed regions, so the media owners that can pull the content will see Youtube as complicit in the redistribution if Youtube doesn’t attempt to stop it.
Yeah, have experienced this myself. I routinely have VPN on my phone but have to bypass it for Disney+ and a few others. It even blocks me watching via a UK endpoint which means, as shn6 stated, is them blocking lists of IP addresses.
It may work but don’t count on it.
What’s the right VPN? Money isn’t an issue, I’m trying to assist someone else in setting up a VPN for all of their internet traffic.
What VPN do you use?