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From: micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com>
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Subject: Re: VPN report; Express VPN works, two others didn't.
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In comp.mobile.android, on Mon, 28 Mar 2022 14:02:16 -0700, sms
<scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:

>On 3/28/2022 12:36 PM, Chris wrote:
>> On 27/03/2022 22:35, micky wrote:
>>> I wanted to listen to a radio/tv stattion that I couldn't because I'm
>>> not in the USA, and I tried VPN Super and NordVPN, and in each case I
>>> chose one of their several or many locations in the USA, but it still
>>> didn't work.  Then I tried ExpressVPN on the laptop, and it includes VPN
>>> for the phone. and it worked on both.   It started off with Italy, which
>>> did not work, but New Jersey works fine.
>>>
>>> I can cancel within 30 days and get my money back but otherwise i think
>>> it's $13/month.  Cheaper per month for 6 or 12 months.
>>>
>>> I would have thought that any VPN would work and that the differences
>>> were about other things, ease of use or something.
>> 
>> Media providers are getting wise to VPNs and so are blocking IPs 
>> associated with the bigger VPNs.
>> 
>>> It's nice not to be limited.  On my previous trip I wanted to watch a
>>> movie from some service my local US library subscribes to, and it too
>>> said I was out of the region, and the one VPN I trie (on the laptop) did
>>> not work.  I didn't take the time to try others.
>
>It's sometimes not just the VPN being set to a different place but also 
>spoofing the GPS location. Some of streaming services will look at the 
>location of the device and a VPN isn't sufficient. I ran into this a few 
>months ago trying to watch a college football (real football, not 
>soccer) game.
>
>Just using a VPN in the area where the game was being broadcast didn't 
>work (using a DirecTV Stream account). Once I spoofed the GPS location 
>on my phone, to the region where the sporting event was being broadcast, 
>it worked fine. I then used a USB-C to HDMI cable to connect the phone 
>to the TV and put the phone on a wireless charger. I use Surfshark which 
>actually includes GPS spoofing.
>
>Unfortunately, you can't do GPS spoofing on an iPhone (unless it's 
>jailbroken) but it's no problem to do it on Android, see #27a on page 22 
>in the document "33 iOS & iPhone Features Which [many] Android Users 
>Wish they Had & 147 Android & Android Phone Which [many] iOS Users Wish 
>they Had" at <https://tinyurl.com/iOS-Android-Features>.
>

Very interesting.  Complicated, however.  I guess I'm lucky, happy, I
only had to change VPNs.