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BBC iPlayer
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2017 5:39 am
by Cruisemonkey
BBC iPlayer has been making it more and more difficult to access from overseas. Along with having to register giving a UK postal code, and stating you have a TV license, they are actively blocking VPNs... and getting better and better at it over time. Until yesterday, I could access iPlayer with Astrill (usually after some tweaking... like clearing cookies, flushing DNS cache etc.), but now NOTHING works. Astrill support says their engineers are "working on it" but can't say when they might come up with a solution.
Is anybody using a VPN that allows you to access iPlayer? If so, what VPN?
Re: BBC iPlayer
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2017 11:38 am
by Jamie_Lambo
Cruisemonkey wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2017 5:39 am
BBC iPlayer has been making it more and more difficult to access from overseas. Along with having to register giving a UK postal code, and stating you have a TV license, they are actively blocking VPNs... and getting better and better at it over time. Until yesterday, I could access iPlayer with Astrill (usually after some tweaking... like clearing cookies, flushing DNS cache etc.), but now NOTHING works. Astrill support says their engineers are "working on it" but can't say when they might come up with a solution.
Is anybody using a VPN that allows you to access iPlayer? If so, what VPN?
yeah your right, i can no longer use it either, because of the IP
Re: BBC iPlayer
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2017 3:18 pm
by cptrelentless
Cyberghost can bypass the filter for iPlayer and Hulu etc
Sent from my LG-X240 using Tapatalk
Re: BBC iPlayer
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2017 11:33 am
by Cruisemonkey
Astrill has asked me to give them a couple of days and then try it. I don't know what their techs are going to do, but they only have 9 UK servers.
I've looked at Cyberghost and it has 122 UK servers (so more difficult for BBC to 'tag' an IP as a VPN's)... and it's less than half the price of Astrill per month... if you sign up for two years.
If Astrill doesn't fix this soon, I may become a Cyberghost customer and not renew my Astrill account when it expires.
Re: BBC iPlayer
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2017 12:10 pm
by vladimir
VPNs advertise...don't they also have a recognisable footprint/signature? Which could make blocking them easier, particularly when you only want to block access to one service?
Re: BBC iPlayer
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2017 3:30 pm
by Digg3r
Cruisemonkey wrote:BBC iPlayer has been making it more and more difficult to access from overseas. Along with having to register giving a UK postal code, and stating you have a TV license, they are actively blocking VPNs... and getting better and better at it over time. Until yesterday, I could access iPlayer with Astrill (usually after some tweaking... like clearing cookies, flushing DNS cache etc.), but now NOTHING works. Astrill support says their engineers are "working on it" but can't say when they might come up with a solution.
Is anybody using a VPN that allows you to access iPlayer? If so, what VPN?
I use getflix.com.au
Still works fine.
Re: BBC iPlayer
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2017 6:31 pm
by Fourkinnel
teatimetv.to into your address bar. All the UK freeview channels.
Re: BBC iPlayer
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 9:53 am
by Cruisemonkey
teatimetv.to leads to nothing.
Re: BBC iPlayer
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 11:52 am
by Fourkinnel
Re: BBC iPlayer
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 11:55 am
by Cruisemonkey
No... I get nothing but a blank page.
