Were you using VPN or just DNS unlocking?
What is interesting is the way it fails, so it knows you’re using a proxy… but is that just a case for known proxies? (ie companies selling this sort of service).
It it actually smart enough to re-direct and fall back to the allowed local content or not? (ie is this just to see how much push back they get with an in your face message rather than a silent failure??).
Given the unblocking providers like making money it’s in their best interest to keep tweaking things so they work for end users (as quickly as possible too!). So the cat and mouse game begins and while Netflix might get small bursts of success will they keep investing in trying to block these services since they are still making money from subscriptions anyway? (or will it be lip service to the content providers with a half hearted real effort
It has me wondering on if I could setup my own private unblocker. As the below link says, there are providers who specialise/allow these things but the flipside is that the content providers can simply blacklist the whole IP range.
If you had your own dedicated server in the US that not from one of the above providers you could setup and run your own private DNS Unblocker (until the content providers find a way to flat out block this type of service).
Of course you could go with an all out VPN through that dedicated server but then all traffic would going to/from that US based IP… which is also far less likely to be flagged since it would only be a single user/account from a single IP within the appropriate region. The downside here being that you’d be using lots of bandwidth and you’d have to have a decent speed connection at the other end which isn’t always the case with the cheaper providers.
Exactly how many Netflix/Hulu accounts you could put across that BPN before the providers flag the IP is another question too. Obviously the less account the higher the cost… which could quickly add up to be a lot.
For the moment it’s working as is so setting up something else seems like a lot of work that I don’t need to do.
For interest I did a quick google for cheap dedicated servers in the US and found a few different places. These are search results only, so no guarantee of service/quality etc etc.
But for US$25 / month you can get 2TB of storage and 20TB of transfer. For a personal offsite backup of your photos, email hosting and DNS unblocker that’s not all that bad (if you’re comfortable with running these things yourself that is).
https://www.datashack.net/dedicated/