VPN Providers Quickly Defeat Netflix's 'Crackdown' on VPNs Earlier this month we noted that Netflix was trying to placate broadcasters by claiming they were working hard to crack down on VPNs to stop out of region viewing, just a few days after a key executive admitted that it was essentially impossible to do so. Not only is it impossible, such behavior only works to annoy users that engage the use of a VPN for perfectly legitimate security and privacy reasons. Still, Netflix apparently believes it has to make a token effort to placate global broadcasting partners nervous about Netflix's growing global power.

And sure enough, VPN providers have quickly found that Netflix's VPN ban has proven to be trivial to get around. Many VPN providers offer a VPN IP address rather than a shared public one allowing users to avoid tripping Netflix's detection systems. Providers can also just continually change server IP addresses to keep one step ahead of Netflix. In Australia, providers like uFlix are telling customers on Facebook that they've managed to trick Netflix's systems using a combination of approaches: quote: uFlix managing director Peter Dujan wouldn't go into detail about how uFlix had engineered the fix but said: "Everything is working and we have very happy customers." When a customer asked uFlix on its Facebook page whether the service had moved to a new server, a representative replied that "a mixture of a few different things" had worked. In short, nothing can really stop users from using VPNs and proxies to engage in global Netflix content tourism. Unfortunately that's not going to stop broadcasters (and the politicians who love them) from waging war on VPNs over the next few years to protect existing broadcast and media licensing fiefdoms. Until then, with Netflix now operating in 190 countries, the content available in each country remains highly fractured. Finder has compiled a pretty amazing In short, nothing can really stop users from using VPNs and proxies to engage in global Netflix content tourism. Unfortunately that's not going to stop broadcasters (and the politicians who love them) from waging war on VPNs over the next few years to protect existing broadcast and media licensing fiefdoms. Until then, with Netflix now operating in 190 countries, the content available in each country remains highly fractured. Finder has compiled a pretty amazing list of all Netflix content available by country , as well as an interactive global map and a full comparison table that shows how little of the full American Netflix content catalog many countries are getting.







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zod5000

join:2003-10-21

Victoria, BC ·TELUS

·Shaw

2 recommendations zod5000 Member VPN's with our without shared IP address..... It's becoming bittersweet to use a VPN that uses a share IP address. The shared IP address is good because it makes it harder to identify you (it gives you more privacy). If someone asked them what user was using this IP address on this date at this time, they'd handover a list of 10,000+ people. I think they're a good thing.



On the other hand it's really easy to ban IP addresses when a VPN uses 10-20 of them for their different servers.



Hopefully the shared IP ones have enough IP address to continually rotate the IP address to keep their servers from being banned.