{"id":2965,"date":"2016-01-22T08:05:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T16:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2016-01-22T08:05:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T16:05:59","slug":"boo-netflix-begins-blocking-vpn-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=2965","title":{"rendered":"Boo! Netflix begins blocking VPN users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until now, a VPN served as an incredibly useful tool for Netflix subscribers who wanted to access content from another country \u2013 an American watching British Netflix, for example, or a traveler who wanted Netflix in an unsupported market \u2013 but that\u2019s coming to an end. Netflix said recently that it was going to begin blocking users who try to connect through a VPN and, according to <em>The\u00a0<\/em><em>Sydney Morning Herald<\/em>, that\u2019s starting now.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou seem to be using an unblocker or proxy,\u201d one alert from Netflix provided to uFlix and cited by\u00a0<em>The Sydney Morning Herald<\/em>, said.\u00a0\u201cPlease turn off any of these services and try again,\u201d the notice says, urging folks to turn off their VPNs and other tools used to access Netflix. uFlix told\u00a0<em>The Sydney Morning Herald<\/em> that this is still a testing period for Netflix, which means users might not always get the alert, or might only see it in some markets.<\/p>\n<p>Now that Netflix has expanded its service to more countries around the world, a VPN isn\u2019t always necessary. Still, it was a convenient tool for folks who wanted to watch out of market content.<\/p>\n<div class=\"infinite-scroll-metadata\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"sourcevia-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sourcevia fCaps fLS0\"><span class=\"label fLS1\">SOURCE<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/digital-life\/hometech\/netflix-starts-blocking-australian-customers-from-us-catalogue-20160121-gman3y.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until now, a VPN served as an incredibly useful tool for Netflix subscribers who wanted to access content from another country \u2013 an American watching British Netflix, for example, or a traveler who wanted Netflix in an unsupported market \u2013 but that\u2019s coming to an end. Netflix said recently that it was going to begin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-streaming-media","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}