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Does anyone use a VPN to subvert the Netflix household device fencing? (programming.dev)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by tatterdemalion@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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AFAICT, if a Netflix account owner sets up a VPN for their household, then anyone sharing the account who routes their Netflix traffic through that VPN would appear to be accessing Netflix from that household's WAN IP address.

Is anyone doing this? Is it really that simple or are there more challenges?

EDIT: We get it, you like torrenting. Let's keep comments on topic folks.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tail scale, wire guard, open VPN all work

They see your traffic coming from a residential ISP and don't give it a second thought.

That said, if their service is that bad, piracy's not a bad option. If someone's going to provide me a service that I have to pay for and then tighten down the screws until let's no longer reasonable, why should I care about following their rules?

[–] quokka1@mastodon.au 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@rumba @tatterdemalion if the app/device is collecting location and sending various other data then they'll be feeding that into their decision making

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Netflix has no GPS permissions. What various other data are you referring to?

[–] quokka1@mastodon.au 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@rumba Wi-Fi network, mobile network, dates, times, user profile, what's watched, screen size, installation platform - probably a lot of the same techniques that browser fingerprinting uses

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fingerprinting is insufficient for geolocation. If they were a state actor or an ISP, maybe. Everyone who ever leaves their house with a device would show up as a false positive.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

Everyone who ever leaves their house with a device would show up as a false positive.

Yes, that happens all the time with these streaming services that are cracking down.