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Quite - but you selected a bit of an edge case @ netflix.

This will go along way in preventing people getting slaughtered because Windows decided to quietly do a 300mb update. 15 Euro...big deal. Hell there are country/carrier combinations where that will cost you ~10k EUR (admittedly non-EU...don't know what the highest EU combo is).

Most people just want to check their mails and browse facebook without having to re-mortgage their house.

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Netflix on holiday is a number one use case for me.

I don't want to sound smug or anything, but why go abroad to watch Netflix?

Well I had a 7 hour stop over on a foreign airport today (LGW) so its not impossible.

But as I said - edge case and very much something that most people would think through carefully in terms of connectivity. e.g. I knew today I can push maybe 250mb before my 3G bombed out. So I browsed instead of netflixed.

Ah yes, airport stopovers are a good point. Maybe also business travel to "boring" places.

...because after {an exciting day of seeing all the wonderful attractions that there are to see in $COUNTRY, an exhausting day full of business meetings that you don't really want to go to but come with the territory of working for $MEGACORP}, maybe you just want a quiet evening with a movie to relax?

Why? Kids

Kids, mainly.

Did I miss something about a change in Netflix' geo-ip policy?

I was able to circumvent whilst I was away earlier this year. I think it's harder now.

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