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Netflix isn’t cracking down on foreign users utilizing VPNs to access the company’s streaming service, or at least not more than it has always done, according to Netflix’s Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt. “We haven’t changed our VPN policy at all,” said Hunt during a CES press briefing in Las Vegas on Tuesday.

Hunt’s remarks followed reports that Netflix started to crack down on VPN users following requests of movie studios. Users in countries where [company]Netflix[/company] hasn’t officially launched yet have long used VPNs to bypass geo-blocking mechanisms that would prevent them from accessing Netflix’s streaming service by pretending that their computer resided in the U.S..

Recently, an increased number of VPN users complained online that they haven’t been able to access Netflix anymore, but Hunt said Tuesday that this has nothing to do with any stricter blocking rules. Instead, Netflix Android mobile app is now querying Google’s DNS service if a user’s default DNS service times out. That means that if a VPN service doesn’t return a DNS request in time, apps automatically get the local DNS information from Google, leading to users being locked out if they’re not in a Netflix market.

Hunt added that Netflix has long used “the same VPN block list that everyone else uses,” and that it can only do so much to prevent users from accessing the service from abroad.

This post was updated at 5:28pm to clarify that Netflix only queries Google DNS with its new mobile Android app.