Netflix clamping down on geo-dodgers

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 :stuck_out_tongue:

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/

uFlix sent out a message the other day saying there were problems and that people need to go through a new, somewhat convoluted process to get around it, but it’s all still working for me so far.

I was just using the DNS redirect option. I’ll try and see if I can choose a different DNS location and see if I can get it working again, but at the moment I’m happy to stick with Netflix Australia as it is showing House of Cards anyway.

My daughter is a bit annoyed though as Australia has only 1 season of a cartoon show she is watching but Netflix US has 4 seasons available.

Getflix has not given me any grief at all. Periodically it fails because of congestion, or occasionally I can’t access a particular episode of a series (like Crossing Lines series 2, cant access episode 2 or 4, havent yet tried 5). All I do is wait a while and it settles down. I only have it in my AppleTVs (3 and 4) and my iPad Air2. So far no real fails.

It might be worth checking your Getflix settings to make sure the force subtitles off feature is disabled. Often when it’s enabled it stops shows from loading on Apple TV if they have subtitles in them.

Thanks for the tip, and now I can watch those eps, but… No subtitles. Oh well, not to worry :slight_smile:

You should still get subtitles, it just won’t block subtitles in regions like Mexico where they put spanish subtitles on english shows.

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Never had issues when I watched Crossing Lines with subtitles (it’s a good show). Season 2 is good (season 3 not so good).

Oh whoops, I meant Season 3. Of course I binged on s1 and s2 already. I havent had much of a chance to get with the season 3 cast. Disappointed that there are some changes.

Getflix is doing some interesting things. It seems as though Netflix are allowing browsing of other countries’ catalogues - it’s when you play it that the proxy warning happens.

Example:

  • On AU Netflix, Cooked plays normally and X-Files is not found.
  • On CA Netflix, Cooked plays normally and X-Files is found but blocked.

It’s as though Netflix are running separate checks for your location when you browse and when you play, and Getflix is only fooling the first one.

I saw something like that the other day with the VPN, but after reading your post today I’ve tried watching the X-Files. S01E01 on US Netflix is currently streaming just fine on my ATV3. (wow everyone looks so young! I remember watching the X-Files when it was new :stuck_out_tongue: Turns out I’ve also been living under a rock since I didn’t realise they brought it back… although I suppose that explains why it’s in the spotlight :wink: ).

It’s worth following Getflix on Facebook to get the latest updates. There is a known issue of Netflix using proxy blocking on the playing of media for a large number of users. It sounds like Getflix have a solution in the works, but it’s involving a lot of time and effort.

In the end, if I get stuck with the Australian catalogue I’d cancel it in a heartbeat because Stan is better.

Weird. I still havent had any Getflix problems. Seems like it might just be a matter of time.

Uflix has been working fine.

I’m getting the same issue periodically, it seems to be intermittent here.

I am getting exact same issue with uflix. Can browse the catalogue, but kills the stream. Regardless of country. Comes up with a proxy warning.

Last night we wanted to watch Better Call Saul on Netflix (UK). I got a warning message using my normal PIA VPN, but I switched to Getflix and it worked fine.

As predicted, it was only a matter of time before I had Getflix issues. Whats the workaround? I’m just using the basic proxy

I haven’t found a workaround, sometimes Getflix doesn’t work and sometimes it works.

Later last night I switched from U1 to U0 and it was all OK again. I suppose at some time it will happen again