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Are VPNs getting useless against geo-restricted services?
I just tried a free subscription to Hulu and it wants me to enable the
location service in the Chrome browser. Apparently Hulu got smart and does not rely on the US IP provided by the VPN. Chrome location would probably provide my true location in EU. Is there a way to defeat that, too? |
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Are VPNs getting useless against geo-restricted services?
Cameo wrote:
I just tried a free subscription to Hulu and it wants me to enable the location service in the Chrome browser. Apparently Hulu got smart and does not rely on the US IP provided by the VPN. Chrome location would probably provide my true location in EU. Is there a way to defeat that, too? I could find this for Chrome, but you just know they'll have more methods than this up their sleeve. https://developers.google.com/web/to...de/geolocation Paul |
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On 25/11/2019 21:22, Cameo wrote:
Chrome location would probably provide my true location in EU. Is there a way to defeat that, too? Sure there is always a way to defeat anything in this world. Look at that heist in Dresden Green Vault in eastern Germany that is most guarded place in Germany but they still managed to shut down almost everything including traffic lights, electricity and alarm system. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50545003 What amazes me is that there are people of with less intelligence who still insists on using VPN in countries where dictatorship had never existed. Even Spain & Italy are is democratic countries. No more Mussolini or Franco. I don't know what these nutters are worried about. It could be that they are members of Epstein's inner circle abusing young girls & boys so clearly they should be worried about it. Otherwise, the easiest way to defeat anything is to start living a normal life like most us law abiding citizens on this planet. -- With over 1,000,000 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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Are VPNs getting useless against geo-restricted services?
On 2019-11-25, Cameo wrote:
I just tried a free subscription to Hulu and it wants me to enable the location service in the Chrome browser. Apparently Hulu got smart and does not rely on the US IP provided by the VPN. Chrome location would probably provide my true location in EU. Is there a way to defeat that, too? A surefire way to defeat Chrome location is to use Mozilla Firefox instead. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Blake (Posts from Google Groups killfiled due to excess spam.) NSA sedition and treason -- http://www.DeathToNSAthugs.com Don't talk to cops! -- http://www.DontTalkToCops.com Badges don't grant extra rights -- http://www.CopBlock.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Are VPNs getting useless against geo-restricted services?
On 25 Nov 2019, Cameo wrote
(in article ): I just tried a free subscription to Hulu and it wants me to enable the location service in the Chrome browser. Apparently Hulu got smart and does not rely on the US IP provided by the VPN. Chrome location would probably provide my true location in EU. Is there a way to defeat that, too? Don’tuse Chrome. Use Brave. Or Vivaldi. Or Firefox. Or... there are a _lot_ of alternatives. Brave is faster than Chrome talking to the same sites via the same network and on the same hardware, and _doesn’t_ blab your location. |
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Are VPNs getting useless against geo-restricted services?
On 26/11/2019 14:06, Wolffan wrote:
Don’tuse Chrome. Use Brave. Or Vivaldi. And be an idiot like you. How many people still use those fringe browsers. You must be the most stupid person among your friends. I'm surprised they didn't knife you. Stupid people should be wiped out completely in this world. Path: aioe.org!peer01.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!tr2.eu1.usenetexpress.com!feeder.usenete xpress.com!tr3.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp .dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp. dca1.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!n ntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 08:06:11 -0600 Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 09:06:11 -0500 From: Wolffan Organization: The Pack Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Hogwasher/5.24 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: s.com Subject: Are VPNs getting useless against geo-restricted services? Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10 References: Lines: 13 X-Trace: sv3-AbXH0YRsJhiCT9ryJIiaEQJkE3UU9HtqYRHEAu6hi29IL8M30B hjtbvK0zWzmKBZ5k7D5jT9ww3n1tj!xkYRt3W1DxUbDpjRWpgS 2xs/36yX0qP3szPUAuhIffR6bB6x58nQhmn0hAOIaKRW7lYo4r7iHn tR!AHqrddQlLPpVVu6/MGY3H72Y X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1702 X-Received-Bytes: 1902 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3783499841 Xref: aioe.org alt.comp.os.windows-10:104312 -- With over 1,000,000 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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On 11/26/2019 1:10 AM, Paul wrote:
Cameo wrote: I just tried a free subscription to Hulu and it wants me to enable the location service in the Chrome browser. Apparently Hulu got smart and does not rely on the US IP provided by the VPN. Chrome location would probably provide my true location in EU. Is there a way to defeat that, too? I could find this for Chrome, but you just know they'll have more methods than this up their sleeve. https://developers.google.com/web/to...de/geolocation ** Paul Thanks, Paul. That seems to have done the trick. Of course I don't know how long, but I keep my fingers crossed. What is not clear to me though whether from now on I'll have to set the location coordinates there manually, even to the true position, or it will reset itself somehow with a certain operation, like reboot. I wish it would work similarly to VPN location setting. It's not a complaint because I can live with it as it is. Finally I can watch US live TV in Europe and damn the time difference! |
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On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 09:06:11 -0500, Wolffan
wrote: On 25 Nov 2019, Cameo wrote (in article ): I just tried a free subscription to Hulu and it wants me to enable the location service in the Chrome browser. Apparently Hulu got smart and does not rely on the US IP provided by the VPN. Chrome location would probably provide my true location in EU. Is there a way to defeat that, too? Don’tuse Chrome. Use Brave. Or Vivaldi. Or Firefox. Or... there are a _lot_ of alternatives. Brave is faster than Chrome talking to the same sites via the same network and on the same hardware, and _doesn’t_ blab your location. I've often thought with a pint of Abby Ale, and some Vivaldi on the stereo, cares seem to melt away. That's just two of the Holy Trinity. (wine, women and song) Hulu? Who needs it? Curl up with a good book. |
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default wrote: On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 09:06:11 -0500, Wolffan wrote: On 25 Nov 2019, Cameo wrote (in article ): I just tried a free subscription to Hulu and it wants me to enable the location service in the Chrome browser. Apparently Hulu got smart and does not rely on the US IP provided by the VPN. Chrome location would probably provide my true location in EU. Is there a way to defeat that, too? Don’tuse Chrome. Use Brave. Or Vivaldi. Or Firefox. Or... there are a _lot_ of alternatives. Brave is faster than Chrome talking to the same sites via the same network and on the same hardware, and _doesn’t_ blab your location. I've often thought with a pint of Abby Ale, and some Vivaldi on the stereo, cares seem to melt away. That's just two of the Holy Trinity. (wine, women and song) Hulu? Who needs it? Curl up with a good book. If you had said (as I was expecting you were going to) "Curl up with a good woman", then you would, indeed, have all 3. What I find amusing in this thread is that usually, on any online forum, when somebody is trying to do something illegal (as is clearly the case here), everybody gets all hyper and sanctimonious about it, telling them not to even think about posting online about such things. Why has that not happened here? Why the double standard??? -- You are again heaping damnation upon your own head by your statements. - Rick C Hodgin - |
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On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 14:31:15 +0000, ? Good Guy ?
wrote: Path: not-for-mail From: ? Good Guy ? Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: Are VPNs getting useless against geo-restricted services? Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 14:31:15 +0000 Organization: Mixmin Message-ID: References: s.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------040301080600040700090300" Injection-Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 14:31:16 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.mixmin.net; posting-host="7e7a449b1364d3d1e0b7a8055282adfd408c52b1"; logging-data="21444"; " User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.2 In-Reply-To: s.com X-Received-Bytes: 6697 X-Received-Body-CRC: 252801699 On 26/11/2019 14:06, Wolffan wrote: Don’tuse Chrome. Use Brave. Or Vivaldi. And be an idiot like you. How many people still use those fringe browsers. You must be the most stupid person among your friends. I'm surprised they didn't knife you. Stupid people should be wiped out completely in this world. Path: aioe.org!peer01.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!tr2.eu1.usenetexpress.com!feeder.usenete xpress.com!tr3.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp .dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp. dca1.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!n ntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 08:06:11 -0600 Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 09:06:11 -0500 From: Wolffan Organization: The Pack Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Hogwasher/5.24 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: s.com Subject: Are VPNs getting useless against geo-restricted services? Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10 References: Lines: 13 X-Trace: sv3-AbXH0YRsJhiCT9ryJIiaEQJkE3UU9HtqYRHEAu6hi29IL8M30B hjtbvK0zWzmKBZ5k7D5jT9ww3n1tj!xkYRt3W1DxUbDpjRWpgS 2xs/36yX0qP3szPUAuhIffR6bB6x58nQhmn0hAOIaKRW7lYo4r7iHn tR!AHqrddQlLPpVVu6/MGY3H72Y X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1702 X-Received-Bytes: 1902 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3783499841 Xref: aioe.org alt.comp.os.windows-10:104312 -- With over 1,000,000 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. -- Eric Stevens There are two classes of people. Those who divide people into two classes and those who don't. I belong to the second class. |
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On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 17:35:00 +0100, Cameo wrote:
Thanks, Paul. That seems to have done the trick. Of course I don't know how long, but I keep my fingers crossed. What is not clear to me though whether from now on I'll have to set the location coordinates there manually, even to the true position, or it will reset itself somehow with a certain operation, like reboot. I wish it would work similarly to VPN location setting. It's not a complaint because I can live with it as it is. Finally I can watch US live TV in Europe and damn the time difference! Dunno whether it will work in your case, where I note Paul already provided a solution that worked, but for the record, for others to benefit, the Opera and Epic Chromium-based browsers both have proxies that "might" work. |
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Kenny McCormack wrote:
In article , default wrote: On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 09:06:11 -0500, Wolffan wrote: On 25 Nov 2019, Cameo wrote (in article ): I just tried a free subscription to Hulu and it wants me to enable the location service in the Chrome browser. Apparently Hulu got smart and does not rely on the US IP provided by the VPN. Chrome location would probably provide my true location in EU. Is there a way to defeat that, too? Don’tuse Chrome. Use Brave. Or Vivaldi. Or Firefox. Or... there are a _lot_ of alternatives. Brave is faster than Chrome talking to the same sites via the same network and on the same hardware, and _doesn’t_ blab your location. I've often thought with a pint of Abby Ale, and some Vivaldi on the stereo, cares seem to melt away. That's just two of the Holy Trinity. (wine, women and song) Hulu? Who needs it? Curl up with a good book. If you had said (as I was expecting you were going to) "Curl up with a good woman", then you would, indeed, have all 3. What I find amusing in this thread is that usually, on any online forum, when somebody is trying to do something illegal (as is clearly the case here), everybody gets all hyper and sanctimonious about it, telling them not to even think about posting online about such things. Why has that not happened here? Why the double standard??? Copyright infringement on the Internet is considered as a "minor" issue by most. For example, the vast majority of the global Game of Thrones audience was bootlegged copies. However, in this instance is using a VPN strictly illegal? I'm not so sure. There are regulatory reasons why channels don't choose to be streamed outside their country, but for a larger audience of course they would. Towns and cities near borders can view both countries' TV so there's a precedent. |
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In article , Chris wrote:
Kenny McCormack wrote: In article , default wrote: On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 09:06:11 -0500, Wolffan wrote: On 25 Nov 2019, Cameo wrote (in article ): I just tried a free subscription to Hulu and it wants me to enable the location service in the Chrome browser. Apparently Hulu got smart and does not rely on the US IP provided by the VPN. Chrome location would probably provide my true location in EU. Is there a way to defeat that, too? Don’tuse Chrome. Use Brave. Or Vivaldi. Or Firefox. Or... there are a _lot_ of alternatives. Brave is faster than Chrome talking to the same sites via the same network and on the same hardware, and _doesn’t_ blab your location. I've often thought with a pint of Abby Ale, and some Vivaldi on the stereo, cares seem to melt away. That's just two of the Holy Trinity. (wine, women and song) Hulu? Who needs it? Curl up with a good book. If you had said (as I was expecting you were going to) "Curl up with a good woman", then you would, indeed, have all 3. What I find amusing in this thread is that usually, on any online forum, when somebody is trying to do something illegal (as is clearly the case here), everybody gets all hyper and sanctimonious about it, telling them not to even think about posting online about such things. Why has that not happened here? Why the double standard??? Copyright infringement on the Internet is considered as a "minor" issue by most. For example, the vast majority of the global Game of Thrones audience was bootlegged copies. However, in this instance is using a VPN strictly illegal? I'm not so sure. There are regulatory reasons why channels don't choose to be streamed outside their country, but for a larger audience of course they would. Towns and cities near borders can view both countries' TV so there's a precedent. In case it wasn't clear, my point was that I don't think it is the business of online forum commentators to police other people's morality. Just answer the question (on a technical basis) or move on. (Yes, I realize this point is subtle. Don't bother flaming me until you actually understand what is being said.) -- The randomly chosen signature file that would have appeared here is more than 4 lines long. As such, it violates one or more Usenet RFCs. In order to remain in compliance with said RFCs, the actual sig can be found at the following URL: http://user.xmission.com/~gazelle/Sigs/Infallibility |
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On 27/11/2019 12:37, Arlen Holder wrote:
Wolffan (~BD~ sock) You are completely wrong about that, Arlen! Have another try at who/what he is. |
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