Yes different streaming services have different levels of caring where you're located, and ways of detecting it. For example a personal success was to watch a show on Channel 4 (UK) from the US, they don't seem to be super strict about it.
Google will route all of your internet traffic through their network tunnel. They are a data mining / advertising company. They're the worst possible company to use for a VPN.
Exactly.Why would anyone want to hide from a Secret Santa?
ProtonVPN is a no go. Proton is a shady, lying company. They stated on their website that they don't even track your IP. And then when they gave up a guy's IP information to authorities, among other things, they took that claim off of their website. They got a lot of crap for that. People have also run into scenarios in which Proton was able to read their encrypted email, which they specifically stated they can't. I would avoid anything related to that company like the plague. They have offices in the US, despite stating they're operating under Swiss privacy laws. They could be considered a honeypot. A government spy agency operating under the guise of encryption.
You should be suspicious. The VPN works as it always did before they got bought out by a data mining company. There's nothing wrong in how it operates. You press a button and it connects. But they're not a company that can be trusted anymore. Nord and Mullvad have proven themselves to be worthy of trust. Snowden specifically said you can no longer trust them after the buy out. A VPN is worthless if the company running the VPN is garbage.
The further away from your home country you try and connect to, the slower and more unstable the connection will be. Having said that, Nord has been pretty horrible lately even with local connections. They're probably overselling customers and can't meet the bandwidth demand. I often get messages about overloaded servers. I'm going to be switching soon when my subscription is up.
I have been a user since 2017, long time before the hyper-aggressive marketing campaign they started from about 2020, and sadly I have to agree.
That would be disappointing. Private Relay has been a terrible experience.I am thinking this is going to be something more like Private Relay, just designed for Apple TV vs. iCloud/Safari.
You've been able to do this for years. It wouldn't change anything.
Following this thread for more information, so which provider will you move to? Mullvad?
Yes. It doesn't have the fastest speeds, but the owner is a good dude and it's considered one of the most secure/private VPNs at the moment. You can literally send the company an envelope with cash in it and you'll receive a code so you don't have an online digital fingerprint with transactions.
It has sometimes made my connections very slow or sometimes not work at all. It's been very glitchy. I use a VPN anyway so it doesn't really matter. It works occasionally, just not enough for me to use it regularly.I personally have not had any issues with Private Relay, may I ask what issues you are having? Just curious, and maybe I am having issues that I am not realizing?
Really Apple has allowed VPNs? MLB and such will see this as Apple itself directly helping bypass blackouts instead of 3rd parties like unblocker,
macOS and iOS both have VPNs. tvOS having a VPN wouldn't be any different.
You can change your location with a VPN. So if you are geolocked, you can change where you are to watch the content.
