Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

Sat Jun 4 06:48:18 UTC 2016

On Fri, 3 Jun 2016, Cryptographrix wrote:

> I have a VPN connection at my house. There's no way for them to know the 
> difference between me using my home network connection from Hong Kong or 
> my home network connection from my house.

In my case I have a he.net tunnel from their tunnel servers in Stockholm. 
This is properly GEOIP:ed to Sweden (I had to get that done by another 
content provider that seems to use the same GEOIP as Netflix, because 
after this was done a year ago or something, Netflix stopped thinking I 
was in the US when I accessed it over IPv6.)

My regular IPv4 address also GEOIPs to same place.

So the fact I am using IPv6 through a tunnel provider seems to be what 
triggers Netflix to block me. The fact that my IPv4 connectivity is NOT 
through a tunnel, is something they could check.

I really wish their tunnel connectivity checker was a bit more 
sofisticated so it would correlate the following:

My billing address is in Sweden.
My IPv4 GEOIP says I am in Sweden.
My IPv6 GEOIP says I am in Sweden.

Ok, so fine, I am not trying to circumvent anything so just let me watch 
the bloody content ok to show to people in Sweden.

BLOODY HELL!

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se