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?

    • Nyarlathotep@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Thanks for that explanation. I have seen references to Tailscale forever and even looked at the official web site… And you explained it better than they did.

    • Fraeco@lemm.eeEnglish
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      9 months 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.worldEnglish
        10·
        9 months 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.

    • janguv@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Interesting write-up. But I wonder e.g. what the benefit of this would be over using Wireguard? It’s easy enough to set up on a UK router and then with a tap of the button you’re sending requests via your personal VPN to UK to the internet.