Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

Mark Tinka mark.tinka at seacom.mu
Mon Jun 6 12:49:36 UTC 2016



On 6/Jun/16 00:18, Matt Freitag wrote:

> While it is damaging negative publicity it also makes sense. HE's tunnel
> service amounts to a free VPN that happens to provide IPv6. I would love
> for someone from HE to jump in and explain better how their tunnel works,
> why it's been blocked by Netflix, and what (if anything) they are doing to
> mitigate it.
>
> For my part, I also found that my HE tunnel no longer worked with Netflix
> because, again, it amounts to a free VPN service. I had to shut it off.

You use the word "free" like as though Netflix would not block a "paid
for" VPN service.

I don't think the commercial state of the VPN service matters.

Mark.



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