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You need a good VPN. I used to watch foreign TV, but apparently the foreign broadcasters know which IPs the VPN redirects to, so they blocked me.
They all get identified after a while. They can determine that an IP address belongs to a VPN provider when they get thousands of requests per second coming from a single address. Then they block it.
A imperfect as it may be this will send a message to millions of punks around the world that they are being watched, for this I rejoice.
Boring, Oregon on the way to Damascas.
If they are using a VPN it says in the profile, they are using a VPN.
1. If I want a shopping site to give me information about local stores (e.g., Home Depot), my VPN says I’m over in Seattle or Los Angeles and I get information about what’s in stock at those Home Depot stores.
2. Lots of graphics won’t display correctly if you are using a VPN. Pookie’s Toons often won’t load unless I turn the VPN off.
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3. Hard sometimes to get things like Youtube (and other Google-owned sites) to work now... between them blocking VPNs and hating on adblock program... They use the excuse of blocking bots or "for the children".
4. If you use a VPN for some games and you make the mistake of either turning it on one time or turning it off sometimes, they mark you as a suspecious user or even put you down as a bot account. Lost a Guild Wars (1) account doing that once (10 years of playing).
Most decent paid VPNs have a feature that locks the internet down (called a "kill switch") if you lose connection to your VPN so you don't have leaks. It doesn't happen often (losing VPN connection), but when it does it is a pain for mine budget VPN because I have to restart my computer to re-up everything. Maybe once a month.
That’s my understanding too. They know you’re on VPN. For example, if you’re out of country you can’t VPN Hulu to see the shows in your original country.
They won’t know your country of origin, but they’ll know you’re on VPN.
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