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    Need your help will pay 20$: PIA on pfsense Netflix detects proxy

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    • bmeeksB
      bmeeks @habanavee
      last edited by bmeeks

      @habanavee said in Need your help will pay 20$: PIA on pfsense Netflix detects proxy:

      @bmeeks But Amazon doesn't work in the country where I am right now (Pakistan) and even with VPN which I tried but no success.

      Any suggestion?

      You have to understand that many (if not all) streaming service providers sign contracts with the producers of the content they stream (movies, TV shows, etc.), and those contracts specify which countries or jurisdictions can be shown that content. If the streaming providers violate their contractual obligations, then they are at risk for lawsuits and/or losing the ability to stream that content. So the streaming providers go to great lengths to ensure that only authorized viewers can see content. So that means if a given studio does not want their content shown in Pakistan, then Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and others will take every action they can to be sure the content is not available to viewers in Pakistan.

      One reason for restrictions like this is that content that is legal to view in one country may be patently illegal to view in another. This is particularly true of movies with nudity and other sexual content. What may be perfectly okay in Western Europe is likely not okay at all in Pakistan when it comes to sexual content in movies or TV shows.

      So how does this relate to VPNs? Well, most folks attempt to circumvent the geo-restrictions Amazon, Netflix and others use to control where streaming content is available by using a VPN to hide their true location. Amazon, Netflix and the other streaming services are not stupid. They know what VPNs are all about, so they actively seek to find all the VPN providers' exit node IP addresses and block them. To do any less would invite repercussions from the content producers they signed those contracts with. So like several of us have said here about a dozen times, you will never be 100% successful circumventing streaming provider geo-restrictions using a VPN. It may work for a while, but then it will surely break when Amazon, Neflix or whomever finds that VPN provider's IP address blocks and bans them from accesing their servers.

      User @johnpoz has the best advice in his post immediately above this one. If you happen to live in a country where most all streaming content is blocked, your best choice is to lease your own VPS (virtual private server) in a data center that is located in a country where the content you want to view is available. Set up your server there, and then configure a point-to-point VPN from you to your server for viewing streaming content. So long as you choose your data center wisely, you should be good. Just do not use a VPN provider! Just create a point-to-point VPN tunnel from you to your remote server. But of course you then have the monthly expense of the hosting service along with the subscription price of a streaming service.

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      • senseivitaS
        senseivita
        last edited by johnpoz

        Sorry about the image, I kept getting blocked by Akis-something.

        smart-dns-post.jpg

        Missing something? Word endings, maybe? I included a free puzzle in this msg if you solv--okay, I'm lying. It's dyslexia, makes me do that, sorry! Just finish the word; they're rarely misspelled, just incomplete. Yeah-yeah-I know. Same thing.

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        • JeGrJ
          JeGr LAYER 8 Moderator @senseivita
          last edited by

          @skilledinept Great, a transparent(!) gif with black font - now I have black on black and can't read a thing... When posting pics, think about people, that use dark mode/backgrounds in apps! And if you post links with no reputation at all, it's no surprise, you get blocked from Akismet as that's typical spam bot behavior (editing/posting links in text). After a bit of 👍 you'll get way more slack to post links and shouldn't get blocked posting :)

          Don't forget to upvote 👍 those who kindly offered their time and brainpower to help you!

          If you're interested, I'm available to discuss details of German-speaking paid support (for companies) if needed.

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          • senseivitaS
            senseivita
            last edited by senseivita

            My bad ! 😅

            Actually I had post it with with white background and changed it to make it blend better with the forum's background--it didn't occurred to me people would view it on a standalone viewer or something.

            I removed all of the links by adding underscores before each one but it still blocked me. I think it might be something else because that image is not uploaded to the forum, it's hosted elsewhere (therefore it needed a link) and it allowed it. Weird, huh?! 🤪

            I modified it already, sorry again!

            Missing something? Word endings, maybe? I included a free puzzle in this msg if you solv--okay, I'm lying. It's dyslexia, makes me do that, sorry! Just finish the word; they're rarely misspelled, just incomplete. Yeah-yeah-I know. Same thing.

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            • johnpozJ
              johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
              last edited by

              Doesn't look modified to me - still almost impossible to read

              blackonblack.png

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              • senseivitaS
                senseivita @johnpoz
                last edited by

                @johnpoz It's probably cached by the browser or by Cloudflare. I checked on a different browser and it's now fine.

                Screen_Shot_2019-10-10_at_04_14_37.png

                Missing something? Word endings, maybe? I included a free puzzle in this msg if you solv--okay, I'm lying. It's dyslexia, makes me do that, sorry! Just finish the word; they're rarely misspelled, just incomplete. Yeah-yeah-I know. Same thing.

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                • johnpozJ
                  johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                  last edited by

                  or you didn't actually update it.. You need to actually update the post.. Changing the source not going to fix it.

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                  • senseivitaS
                    senseivita @johnpoz
                    last edited by

                    @johnpoz It does, I promise. I checked -- the forum doesn't save referenced images on its host, it continues to point to them. I tried more browsers and they all show it correctly. I used tunnels, cellular and private mode to switch it up and it's all fine.
                    Screen Shot 2019-10-10 at 04.43.30.png

                    It's not like I say important stuff anyway. 😜 In the future I'll know better though.

                    Missing something? Word endings, maybe? I included a free puzzle in this msg if you solv--okay, I'm lying. It's dyslexia, makes me do that, sorry! Just finish the word; they're rarely misspelled, just incomplete. Yeah-yeah-I know. Same thing.

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                    • johnpozJ
                      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                      last edited by

                      Sorry dude but NO.. I just cleared my cache.. Its still that..

                      Here.. I will fix it.

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                      • senseivitaS
                        senseivita @johnpoz
                        last edited by

                        @johnpoz Thanks, if it helps though; Brave is still showing the old file even after clearing the cache. All the other browsers are fine.

                        Missing something? Word endings, maybe? I included a free puzzle in this msg if you solv--okay, I'm lying. It's dyslexia, makes me do that, sorry! Just finish the word; they're rarely misspelled, just incomplete. Yeah-yeah-I know. Same thing.

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                        • johnpozJ
                          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                          last edited by johnpoz

                          There I fixed your post.. Now you can read it.

                          I don't have time to look into the details of that image - but even when you loaded it directly with an image viewer the background was transparent to whatever the default background was.

                          I saved it as a jpg to remove whatever settings were in the png, and then attached it directly to the post.

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                          • senseivitaS
                            senseivita @johnpoz
                            last edited by

                            @johnpoz Yeah, I noticed. Originally I didn't save it directly on the forum because of the 2MB limit. But I tell you, I fixed it on the server adding a white background and flattening the PNG. Maybe you weren't getting it because Cloudflare caches things requested frequently--or maybe the browser, Chromium-based browsers in my case are always seem to be ignoring stuff, for instance: I cannot log in with smart cards to vCenter because it wouldn't kill the session while other browsers do. It would've eventually updated itself.

                            I was already getting it with the white background.

                            Thanks anyway, I won't post transparencies again, lesson learned. 😔

                            Missing something? Word endings, maybe? I included a free puzzle in this msg if you solv--okay, I'm lying. It's dyslexia, makes me do that, sorry! Just finish the word; they're rarely misspelled, just incomplete. Yeah-yeah-I know. Same thing.

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