Just a note for those willing to VPN to other countries, this page lets you search for a title and it will tell you what Netflix countries they are on (if any):
For TV recommendations, here are some that aren’t getting enough love in this thread:
Archer: Hilarious, hilarious, hilarious. Stick with it at least a few episodes, but all of them are great.
Narcos: Great netflix original series about the rise (and the start of the fall) of Pablo Escobar.
Friday Night Lights: Never thought I would like a show about small town America (no offense to anyone who lives in that environment), but this is a very cool series about that culture, in particular the football.
When I used the service, I had 2 routers. One that was called ‘ourhome’ and the other called ‘ourhome-other’. The ‘other’ one had the Unblock-US DNS settings on it. So, depending on which device I attached to, I could easily change regions.
For example, one kid wants to watch Daniel Tiger on Netflix (US only at the time), but my other kid wants Dora on the ipad (Canadian only at the time), it was very easy to manage without doing all one or all the other region.
I’ve actually stopped using it because there is enough on Netflix Canada for me to handle and NHL blackouts are very rare now (for some reason?).
Solid service, though…and very handy if you are in, say Mexico, and need a Canadian access to CBC hockey ;)
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Not a remake - a continuation of the series, 25 years later. The 2nd season was notoriously weak, although there was some good stuff in it too. The show really was a bit lost after solving the Laura Palmer murder, but those first 8 or so episodes dealing with it were amazing.
Wow, that Unblock thing works great. I had to use it on my router because the PS3’s browser is shit and wouldn’t connect to the website, but wow, Red Dwarf and The Thick of It, right there! Yay! Thank you!
yeah, it’s not just the dns switch, I don’t think.
Or, without the scrip they could refuse your dns connection, no?
EDIT: and sweet Hay-soos. Why didn’t you dadgum furriners spill it on this long ago? Holy shit. It’s like getting 3 or 4 new streaming services for $4.99 a month, this thing. We’re thinking of maybe just dropping commercial-free Hulu right now.
Thanks! (Also, Flixsearch.io is a great way to search the regional Netflixes to see what’s available.)
Somewhat related, I think there’s a browser add-on called ‘Hola’ which lets you switch to other Netflix regions to watch things for free on your computer. It only works on the browser, though, so if you don’t want to watch on your computer, the paid VPN sites appear to be your only easy option.
One other thing that has me canceling Hulu: in a lot of the Euro markets, the TV series update weekly with new episodes in-season. In the US, you have to wait anywhere from 4 months to a full year for a new season to land.
I’m tempted to try this but I’m A) slightly nervous about introducing technical difficulties to my life and B) not exactly hurting for streaming content.
Do services like Netflix just tacitly allow folks to use a VPN? I mean, yeah, if someone travels, he’s going to log into his account from various countries. But it seems to me if I log into my account from the US one moment, and then Chile an hour later, and the UK an hour after that, and then right back to the US, I might trigger some sort of ‘hey, this dude is using a VPN and, uh, violating our terms of service or whatever’ alarm. Has anyone ever had an account shut down for circumventing regional restrictions like this? Or do streaming services just shrug and figure I’m paying for my account, so whatevs? Are any content providers raising a stink about this the way they do torrents?
There was some blowupabout Hola basically selling your connection as soon as you activate it though, thus allowing other people to download illegal stuff from your IP & you getting the blame (for example).
Hola is a “peer-to-peer” VPN. This may sound nice, but what it actually means is that other people browse the web through your internet connection. To a website, it seems like it’s you browsing the site.
Perhaps that doesn’t seem bad to you. However, imagine that somebody uploaded child pornography through your connection, for example. To everybody else, it seems as if it was your computer that did it, and you can’t really prove otherwise.
I’ve talked with Netflix Denmark about this, because I did NOT want to have our account closed - They had no issues with it whatsoever. The guy explicitly said “We cannot control what country you are in”, even though I explained I was using it in Denmark, so I assume thats just to cover legal grounds they state it that way.
They have also previously been pressured(By content creators) to install anti-vpn measures, but won’t. So, you should be good!
There were some murmurings a year or two ago about Netflix maybe making more of an effort to stop it, or at least make it more difficult, but it didn’t seem to come to anything. It was probably just for their content negotiations. I’ve never had any issues whatsoever, even switching jurisdictions mulitple times in a few minutes. It’s a dramatic contrast to the like of Hulu, which very actively polices known VPN exit nodes. Presumably because Hulu is owned by the networks.
