All my streaming apps know I’m using one and wont allow it. I tried using an app that was local to my state while I was out of state and I tried to use my VPN routed from my state and the app detected it and wouldnt let me. I just seems like it’s very easy for businesses to detect VPN now and block you.
It should also be said that i don’t know anything technical about VPNs. I use Encrypt.me
A VPN will encrypt all traffic coming from your computer. Your ISP or whatever network you are on will not be able to see your traffic.
In my various office jobs, VPN is used to connect to the office network remotely. Once you connect you can access files\software that’s only available while in the office.
VPNs are to create privacy, not permissions. The permissions were a bug, not a feature (despite all the ads promoting that it’s a feature)
Accessing geostreaming content is a side bonus of a VPN, and shouldn’t be the aim of using one, even though it is a major attractor.
In a previous role, we did not even support geostreaming content until late 2018 and if someone asked for it, the official line was we do not support it but if it works, great!
In a more recent role, it was a major focus of the service and as such there were lots of support requests to add X service to Y region. I had an entire spreadsheet to track what worked where and when it was last tested. It meant I often had to use the requested service in the specific region and as such had a lot of streaming services.
In my current role, I don’t focus on it too much as it works.
My aim, is to create a service that offers privacy and security, even in some restrictive regimes, such as China, Iran, UAE, Turkey, Egypt etc and I spend a good amount of focus working with people and organisations to ensure that the service works in their region…
… but they can also watch US Netflix is just a side bonus!
Source: I’ve worked in VPN Senior Management for years and have run some of the big players. Now I run a smaller VPN provider.
It’s important to separate VPNs into real VPN setups and consumer VPN services.
Consumer VPN services: These are basically just virtual Internet Service Providers. Or as others say: glorified proxies.
Real VPN setups: They give you access to network resources otherwise not available on the public Internet.
Streaming services are fighting against consumer VPN services, because these services have legal obligations to the content providers. Those content providers wants to control what is available in different regions. Consumer VPN services takes that control away from the content providers, so they tell streaming services to block consumer VPN services.
Content providers needs to grow up and understand they cannot control the world like this. There will always be a cat-and-mouse game, and everyone would be happier if they just provided access to everything from anywhere via these streaming services.
That’s not how VPNs should be used. It was never their intended purpose to side step streaming geolocation restrictions.
Not even “premium” VPNs can get past blocked public IP addresses.
Get a good vpn… Not somencheap.shitty one
VPN is actually used to create a “local network” virtually over internet. All other “features” that a VPN company might provide comes down to their server gateway and the public IP that they assign to you.
If your IP is blocked, all you can do is find a new IP. If you use a VPN company that has lot of servers, the chances of you getting a non-blocked IP is higher. Also, if you use a smaller VPN company that not many people have heard of, then it’s also possible that their IP is not identified as VPN yet.
It does seem that some more sites are blocking VPNs. Imgur has gone back and forth between blocking and not blocking, for example.
VPN still works on 98% of sites for me. But I don’t do streaming.
My ISP has a court order on it, saying that they can’t allow connections to certain websites mainly Piracy and counterfeiting. In order to bypass their block in need a VPN.
The UK government is also for about the gazillioneth time. Trying to introduce the “porn block” where you would have to register with some company to prove that you’re over 18. In order to watch porn. The main problem that somebody can then see exactly what porn you watch. They’re also trying to link all social media accounts to government issued ID.
There are a few VPNs that can.
So a “good” VPN will not be detectable? Can you recommend one?
It’s not guaranteed to last
I think it will depend what exactly you are looking for. There are really good VPN but that not focus to streaming but to security as many mentioned here and which are the main point of using a VPN. There are other VPN s or DNS services focus to spoof your location so you arre able to use certain streaming services that are not available in your area or to see a different catalog. My vpn still allowed me to see Hulu outside EEUU and check EEUU and UK Netflix catalog.
Nothing is guaranteed with VPNs.
The whole industry is completely rotten.