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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by riley0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Today, for the first time, I couldn't use iplayer. As usual, I switched country to UK, cleared browsing data, deleted everything from temp app data file before going there. Was using Firefox. Tried same procedure with Epic browser. Same result. Chatted with Nord support. They wanted screenshots of results from dnsleaktest dot com. Tech said wait while they checked it out. After a little while, chat terminated. Created a ticket via email.

Have BBC finally made themselves bullet-proof?

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[-] Fraeco@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

How is this different from a VPN provider? Both are breaking out from a node in the country where you want to consume your media. Only one is used by 1000's, one is used just by you.

Not dissing tailscale or anything. But just curious from a technical pov.

[-] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Commercial VPN-providers IP-addresses are known, and easily identified by things like the amount of traffic coming from them.

A single user connecting from a residential IP's indistinguishable from legitimate traffic.

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