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Is VPN advertising increasing due to content restrictions from online streaming services? If you travel overseas, you can't access Netflix, AmazonPrime Video,
by flavmartins 7y ago
Is VPN advertising increasing due to content restrictions from online streaming services?
If you travel overseas, you can't access Netflix, AmazonPrime Video, etc. so a VPN service allows you to still use your service while you're away from home.
And then sports streaming. You can sign up for a yearly subscription to watch sports, but not the teams closest to your physical location due to local blackouts.
Utah is in a terrible place too. No NFL, MLB, or NHL team. But the closest teams are all blacked out from streaming services.
- Buge 7y agoI've found that using a VPN reduces my streaming ability. Using Private Internet Access in the past I was forbidden from watching anything on Netflix. Also I was forbidden from editing Wikipedia even on an old account with positive editing history.
- natoliniak 7y agoNetflix (et al) are blacklisting some common VPN's IP ranges. If that fails, they use some DNS tricks to route the requests to your nearest geographical API and if there is a discrepancy between your IP's location and endpoint's location, they block the requests too. It is possible to overcome, but with some work.
- ehsankia 7y agoYeah tried to fool Disney+ and most things failed. Even routing through my own private VPS didn't work. They're definitely getting much better at it.