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Netflix starts banning proxies from EU

by on28 January 2016


Continuing its self harm policy

Australia is feeling the pain of Netflix's proxy blocking and this week we saw the same thing in Europe.

Fudzilla tried  to watch a US Netflix via proxy and we managed to log in and see all these nice movies and series that are not available across the pond.  But some other territories have already experienced the blocking at this level.

Once we tried to watch any of the content, for example Friends, that is unavailable in German / Austrian version of Netflix, we got a notification that we were using a proxy and could not watch the content.

Germany has as many TV shows and movies as Afghanistan and both have access to 328 TV shows and 1,440 movies. That translates to 28.35% percentage of the total US TV library and 31.35% of the movie library. Austria is even worse as Netflix lets Austrians see only 281 TV show and 1397 movie or 24.29% percentage of US TV library and 30.42 % of the movie library.

Netflix Albania is terrible that will let you see 33 TV shows and 200 movies.  Netflix still wants the same $7.99 to $11.99 for the content.

A lot of users have threatened to cancel their subscriptions if the company gets serious with its VPN/ Proxy ban, and since Netflix seems to be serious about it, let's see if the users actually start dropping the subscription. It doesn’t seem fair to pay the same amount of money for only 30 percent of content. 

Proxy providers have promised a workaround, but we don’t have an eta on that. Some of the fee options still work and Proxy for Netflix Free or Hola will let you watch the content in the US, at least for now. There is a big list how to go behind Netfix's back and gain the access to a US Netflix library.

It is not a fight Netflix can win. Either its customers quit, new customers don't join or people work around the block while spitting tacks at a daft Netflix policy that harms its business model.

Last modified on 28 January 2016
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