Most of us are aware how geoblocks are one more reason people nudge towards piracy. Well, I didn’t knew that companies imposed geoblocks even on free content.

  • @viking@infosec.pub
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    643 months ago

    Many US based websites are no longer displaying content to Europeans, since they can’t legally harvest data. Youtube, Instagram and other websites/apps playing licensed content are also increasingly disregarding countries where licenses are expensive and/or revenue is low.

    I’d really look into getting a good VPN. Mullvad ($5/month) is awesome, or else Proton in the free tier (can’t pick the server but get one assigned at random, might need to restart to get one in a useful location).

    • @1984
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      133 months ago

      Yup but that’s fine, they are full of crap anyway. :)

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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      93 months ago

      (can’t pick the server but get one assigned at random, might need to restart to get one in a useful location)

      Oh, you absolutely can. You can download Wireguard or OpenVPN configs for specific servers even with free tier.
      On Android I use: https://github.com/schwabe/ics-openvpn

      Though they don’t let you select servers in Romania and Poland. Perhaps they just forgot to update the download page.

      • @viking@infosec.pub
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        73 months ago

        Ah yeah, I’m in China so I need the stealth option, which doesn’t work with OpenVPN.

    • lad
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      63 months ago

      since they can’t legally harvest data

      Oh, poor little things 🥺