Netflix is a streaming juggernaut which recently just spread its wings to about 130 countries
in the world, but depending on where you live, most of the content is rather limited unlike
america .
For instance, If you live in the UK, you can’t watch The Office (US version), In Fact, acc
to the latest UNOGS report, Netflix US 5600 titles, while most european country have between
2-3,000 catalog.
#firstworldproblems
So, Why Does the Netflix Library Differ, you ask?
Well, it’s mostly is because media houses that own the rights to different TV shows
and movies , For example, let’s take “the office US “
Netflix has to buy the distribution rights for The office US for each country separately.
So, if they see enough demand from the people in US and not so much from Australia and UK,
then they’d only get the rights for US, while elsewhere ,Netflix users from UK and
Australia wouldn’t get to watch it
But thankfully, you can trick Netflix into thinking that you’re in a different country
altogether , and thereby gaining access to Netflix US.
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How do you circumvent geo restrictions on netflix,you say?
The trick here is real simple Netflix uses your IP address to detect where
you’re browsing from, so say, if the show is not available in Australia but is on Netflix
US, then all you have to do is - masquerade your IP address to american one and you’d
bypass these geo restrictions on netflix catalogue.
Before we begin, it’s important to understand that due the excessive amount of pressure
Netflix gets from media houses, they had used firewalls to ban all the free services, So,
atm there is no free reliable service on the internet which will remove netflix geo-restrictions.
And you’ve gotta shell out good money to get the job one .
And with that out of the way,
There’s only two ways you can go about it .
1.VPN 2.SmartDNSproxy
The most obvious way to do this is by connecting it to a VPN aka Virtual private network.
Say you live in melbourne, you could connect using a US based VPN and then access the Netflix
US catalog.
But as easy at it sounds, VPN is not the ideal solution for circumventing geo restrictions
on streaming sites.
For the past year and half Netflix has been actively cracking down on all connections
that use a VPN, so it’s hard to find a paid vpn that works, let alone a free one .
And the ones that do work are the ones that offer you a dedicated IP, because Netflix
blocks connections coming from shared IP addresses.but the problem with dedicated IP addresses is,
it’s not that great for protecting your anonymity (which was the whole point of getting
a VPN in the first place)
Long story short, - vpn’s are slow, they're hard to set up on different platform, and
now not secure as well.
So, what’s a better solution?
Well, you can always use a sdp, it’s uses a technology called smart dns which, unlike
a VPN don’t change your IP address or slow down your streaming speed.
All you have to do is as follows --------
If I go to netflix and search for the office, you can see it’s not available in my countries,
let’s try to overcome this geo restriction with sdp.
1.
So, head over the official website (link in the description below) and create a free trial
account.
Smart dns proxy has a 14 day free trial, no credit card required.And if you get for 2
years, you can get it for as low as $2 month.you can afford that.
2.
Login to my account, and there you’ll find setup instruction for win, mac, android, ios,
etc.
Or you can check out our setup videos in the playlist.
Let’s setup sdp on your windows computer
3.
Go to network setting in your computer, and enter the two dns servers closer to your physical
location.
Remember, entering the dns server closer to you physical location will only make your
connection faster, unlike a vpn server, which will unblock netflix of any specific countries.
Sdp can only unblock netflix US, and not netflix uk or japan, but then again you can find almost
all the netflix content on the US, than what you’ll find in other countries, so it’s
doesn’t matter much.
4.
Next, go to your my account on sdp and activate your IP address on sdp channel.
And that’s about it, restart your computer ,go to netflix and search for any restricted
content like “the office “ you’d be watching it in no time .
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To setup smart dns proxy, check out our video son win, mac, Android, ios, and everywhere
else.
We highly recommend setting it up on router.
Share your fav movies on netflix down below and watch this to pimp up your netflix experience
like never before.
This is vamsi from sdp and thank for watching.