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Totally agree. The geoblocking is the most common reason a lot of people use VPNs, even if that isn’t always how they are directly marketed. A friend’s mom asked me a few weeks ago for VPN recommendations so she could watch British TV easier. She’s 70. Her concern isn’t about safer browsing stuff but watching GBB more easily.

*Disclosure: ExpressVPN has sponsored my podcast in the past (tho I don’t handle ad sales fwiw) and I’ve always chosen to do the “this is how I watch X service in X country” use case in ad reads, b/c that’s the value in it for me vs rolling my own Wireguard/Tailscale setup (I actually have Tailscale setup for my home network).



It’s funny express has you advertise as being able to watch X service considering when I used express I couldn’t watch Netflix because they throw an error saying they know I’m using a VPN. Same with Amazon prime. I’ve switched to nordvpn but they are no different I can’t even use fast.com to check the speed when the vpn is on.

False advertising I’d say


My kid contacts ExpressVPN when this happens and he says they are pretty good at following up.

We have no illusion that a third party VPN adds any security; we use it for this reason. I vpn to my personal colo machines when away from home.


Netflix has been particularly vigilant as of late to combat VPN usage so it is a cat and mouse game. I haven’t had an ad from them in months but last time I did, it worked with the services I’ve used without a problem. For all VPN services, the geoblock stuff is a moving target so what works one day or week, won’t necessarily work the next. It’s unfortunate but it is what it is.


Yeah Netflix is the reason I switched from ExpressVPN to NordVPN.


NordVPN unblocks services by routing through residential IPs without explicit consent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21664692


XV works with Netflix, just not the default servers.




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