NETFLIXING AND HULUING

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MANY USERS WANT OUT OF A VPN IS THE ABILITY TO WATCH CONTENT THAT’S NORMALLY RESTRICTED BY GEOGRAPHY.

Services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and the BBC use geolocation to restrict content based on country, and a VPN can potentially trick those services into thinking you’re in a different country and are thus authorised to access that country’s library. With Netflix, you don’t even need a separate account for the US — one Netflix account is good the world over.

However, both Netflix and Hulu now block VPNs and proxies from accessing their service. This has turned into a game of cat and mouse with VPN providers. Netflix blocks some VPN IP addresses, so the VPN provider switches them up. Many VPN providers have given up the game, but some still play it, including most of the providers here.

Even if a VPN provider does still give you access to Netflix and Hulu, you probably won’t just be able to connect to any server. Typically, what you have to do is contact customer support and ask which servers still support Netflix. It usually doesn’t take long — most of the customer support staff are well drilled.