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.

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    8 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).

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      8 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.

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        8 months ago

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