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fullspectrumdev on Dec 12, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Review of Mullvad VPN

A lot of normal people have used VPN’s for years now to get around geolocks on streaming content.

Fuck, even some technically illiterate people I know do this to watch various shows.

immibis on Dec 12, 2024 [–]

Every VPN I know is blocked by every geolocked platform I know. The IP geolocation APIs return a code indicating the IP is a VPN exit.

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