Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.uzoreto.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!peer03.ams4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!peer01.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!feeder.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!posting.tweaknews.nl!fx06.ams1.POSTED!not-for-mail From: micky Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: VPN report; Express VPN works, two others didn't. Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Antivirus: AVG (VPS 220328-14, 3/28/2022), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Lines: 48 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tweaknews.nl NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 21:26:06 UTC Organization: Tweaknews Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 00:26:05 +0300 X-Received-Bytes: 3372 Bytes: 3625 In comp.mobile.android, on Mon, 28 Mar 2022 14:02:16 -0700, sms 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 . > Very interesting. Complicated, however. I guess I'm lucky, happy, I only had to change VPNs.