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.
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).
(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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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).
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.
Ah yeah, I’m in China so I need the stealth option, which doesn’t work with OpenVPN.
Oh, poor little things 🥺
Yup but that’s fine, they are full of crap anyway. :)
Free proton has USA, Japan and netherlands
And as of recently Poland and Romania:
Guess I gotta update lol, sadly free proton can’t torrent