Lots of people sign up because they hear from a friend that LiquidVPN still works and then they cancel because they can’t get it working without asking for help,” Dave Cox from LiquidVPN tells us. “The fact that we have to play this game at all is incredibly frustrating. In most cases, new IP-addresses are swiftly blocked causing a lot of frustration among users.
In reality, however, no VPN provider can guarantee that their service works 100% of the time.
The Internet is littered with circumvention tips and tricks and some VPN providers are actively advertising that their service still works. This is also true for the Netflix VPN block. The question on many people’s minds is how effective are Netflix’s measures? According to the providers we spoke with, a lot of their shared IP-addresses were blacklisted quickly.īut, when something’s censored on the Internet, people generally try to find ways around it. When this hits a threshold, the address is then supposedly added to the blacklist as well. A few providers have noticed that some of their IP-ranges were already banned before they were active, suggesting that Netflix automatically flags IPs from certain organizations.Īlso, there’s a strong suspicion that the streaming service keeps track of how many logins there are from a given IP-address. It is still unclear how Netflix’s IP-blacklisting works. The Internet is its own jurisdiction,” PIA’s Caleb Chen says. “It is an odd time when one can pay for a service and not be provided said service when not in the ‘correct physical’ geographical location. The Internet is a location by itself, they believe. Private Internet Access ( PIA) sees the measures as a violation of pure Net Neutrality, noting the origin of traffic should be irrelevant. “In my opinion, no one should have to sacrifice operational security for entertainment,” Torguard‘s Ben Van Pelt tells TorrentFreak.
Some are more open about it than others, but the overall consensus is that Netflix went a step too far by placing copyright protection above security. TorrentFreak spoke to several VPN providers who have to deal with the issue on a daily basis. This broad blocking policy has sparked wide protests and now that 12 months have passed, we take a closer look at where things stand today. However, the measures also affect well-intentioned customers who merely use a VPN to protect their privacy. In an move to appease Hollywood’s major studios, last year Netflix increased its efforts to block customers who circumvent geo-blockades.Īs a result, it has become harder to use VPN services to access Netflix content from other countries.
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