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Does anyone use a VPN to subvert the Netflix household device fencing? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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AFAICT, if a Netflix account owner sets up a VPN for their household, then anyone sharing the account who routes their Netflix traffic through that VPN would appear to be accessing Netflix from that household's WAN IP address.

Is anyone doing this? Is it really that simple or are there more challenges?

EDIT: We get it, you like torrenting. Let's keep comments on topic folks.

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[–] -5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This never worked for me. It would always detect my VPN and alarm out. Even when I was logged in from my own country. If it was on, I was locked out.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I think they mean hosting their own VPN on their home network, not using any third party provider.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It still wouldn't work. If the system is set up to deny service when a VPN is detected, then it doesn't matter where you're connected, or if you're hosting or not.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    How would it know you’re using a VPN?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    if you use the Netflix application chances are they’ll detect the virtual network on your system and if it’s in use, most people don’t seem to realize that applications have direct access to your hardware unless it’s containerized, virtualized or explicitly restricted by some policy.

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