On Fri, 3 Jun 2016, Cryptographrix wrote:
I have a VPN connection at my house. There's no way for them to know the
difference between me using my home network connection from Hong Kong or
my home network connection from my house.
In my case I have a he.net tunnel from their tunnel servers in Stockholm.
This is properly GEOIP:ed to Sweden (I had to get that done by another
content provider that seems to use the same GEOIP as Netflix, because
after this was done a year ago or something, Netflix stopped thinking I
was in the US when I accessed it over IPv6.)
My regular IPv4 address also GEOIPs to same place.
So the fact I am using IPv6 through a tunnel provider seems to be what
triggers Netflix to block me. The fact that my IPv4 connectivity is NOT
through a tunnel, is something they could check.
I really wish their tunnel connectivity checker was a bit more
sofisticated so it would correlate the following:
My billing address is in Sweden.
My IPv4 GEOIP says I am in Sweden.
My IPv6 GEOIP says I am in Sweden.
Ok, so fine, I am not trying to circumvent anything so just let me watch
the bloody content ok to show to people in Sweden.
BLOODY HELL!
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected]
