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Does anyone use a VPN to subvert the Netflix household device fencing? (programming.dev)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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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[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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

To be fair, you posted in the self-hosted community discussing an Issue for proprietary software.

To answer your question, which others have already done, yes your VPN tunnel will share the same IP as your household so long as it’s setup properly.

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 13 points 9 months ago

An issue which I aim to resolve using a self-hosted VPN.

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just a stupid question - Is self-hosting (and this forum) only applies to open source products?

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 9 months ago

This is just my opinion but nope, not at all. There's plenty of proprietary self-host software. Plex is self-host software and it gets talked about here despite being proprietary.