Need your help will pay 20$: PIA on pfsense Netflix detects proxy
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@bmeeks But Amazon doesn't work in the country where I am right now (Pakistan) and even with VPN which I tried but no success.
Any suggestion?
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Not sure how many times have to say this - its going to be a wack a mole game... Find a different vpn service that it works on - good luck.. And few hours, days, weeks it will stop working and you will have to find a different vpn server or even service... ie Wack-A-Mole!!
The term "Whac-a-mole" (or "Whack-a-mole") is used colloquially to denote a repetitious and futile task: each time a task is finished or a problem is dealt with, yet another task/problem appears elsewhere. In a military context, the term is used to refer to ostensibly inferior opposing troops who keep re-appearing. In a programming/debugging context it refers to the fact that fixing a bug has a certain chance of creating a new bug which itself needs to be fixed. In a web context, it refers to the process of fending off recurring spammers, vandals or miscreants. It has also been used of fake news stories.
So you can either continue to play the game with netflix,amazon,hulu, etc. Or find a better solution - do you have buddy/friend in a country that allows watching the services you want to watch? If so vpn to them, or use something like a slingbox or something that allows you to view programs off their TV, etc. If you vpn through them, since they are not a major vpn service, and would have just a normal residential IP address - its unlikely they would get blocked.
Other option would be to get your own vps somewhere and use that as your vpn server.. Since its not part of a major players vpn service ip space - it might be missed as they wack a mole the vpn services IP space..
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@habanavee said in Need your help will pay 20$: 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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Sorry about the image, I kept getting blocked by Akis-something.
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@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 :) -
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!
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Doesn't look modified to me - still almost impossible to read
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@johnpoz It's probably cached by the browser or by Cloudflare. I checked on a different browser and it's now fine.
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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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@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.
It's not like I say important stuff anyway.
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Sorry dude but NO.. I just cleared my cache.. Its still that..
Here.. I will fix it.
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@johnpoz Thanks, if it helps though; Brave is still showing the old file even after clearing the cache. All the other browsers are fine.
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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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@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.
