PSA: There are paid services that use residential/clean (not identified as VPN) IP address VPNs/proxies that allow you to watch Hulu etc in other countries. (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by Cinner@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Just a heads up since this doesn't seem to be common knowledge. There are a lot of different services. You can search "residential proxies" or "clean ip address vpn" and similar. Not sure if I'm allowed to name the names of services, but the one I use (not affiliated, just been using it for a few months now) has a US VPN option for $10/mo BUT there's a $20 setup fee. Similar prices for other countries I think. If you use some of the shadier services that use browser plugins and desktop apps to "loan out traffic" then you can probably get them a lot cheaper. Just don't install anything from the shadier ones, use the VPN config files.

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[-] CJOtheReal@ani.social 43 points 11 months ago

Ok but why do that when you can use VPN to pirat the entire thing?

[-] Rabbit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 11 months ago

Yeah, cost of an extra $120 a year to try and get more media out of a legit and already expensive monthly subscription is the point where I'd just scrap it all for a cheaper VPN for pirating. Point of paying for Netflix or Hulu for me would be to not have to do that stuff.

[-] CJOtheReal@ani.social 11 points 11 months ago

Exactly, Netflix was fine when it was still good and cheap and had most things you want to watch, now you need several subscriptions to watch half that and get geolocked as well.

Thanks im not paying anything at all for that anymore.