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PSA: There are paid services that use residential/clean (not identified as VPN) IP address VPNs/proxies that allow you to watch Hulu etc in other countries. (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just a heads up since this doesn't seem to be common knowledge. There are a lot of different services. You can search "residential proxies" or "clean ip address vpn" and similar. Not sure if I'm allowed to name the names of services, but the one I use (not affiliated, just been using it for a few months now) has a US VPN option for $10/mo BUT there's a $20 setup fee. Similar prices for other countries I think. If you use some of the shadier services that use browser plugins and desktop apps to "loan out traffic" then you can probably get them a lot cheaper. Just don't install anything from the shadier ones, use the VPN config files.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you are using such a service, please make sure that you are not acting as an exit node for them by running their app. You will hopefully find the info in their terms of service. I don't know the services you are using or speaking of directly, but some residential proxies in the past simply redirected users' traffic through other users' internet connection without making it clear. This is a big concern for some users that might be a) accused of piracy themselves or b) a middleman to much more nefarious or objectionable traffic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

yup that's why I mentioned only using the VPN config file and not running any programs from them. there's a reason they have so many clean residential IPs to stream from and it's not because they pay people 10/20$/mo

surfahark and nordvpn and almost all free browser extension vpns do this. always read the terms of service!