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Show HN: A Dockerized proxy to watch Netflix outside the US

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“Our study found Netflix to be the second most popular paid-content media company in Australia, despite the fact that they are not officially available here and that they are actively geo-blocking Australians.”

https://getpocketbook.com/blog/netflix-australia-2-stats-sca...

Which just goes to show how bad the sucky and/or expensive the offerings we have here are.

In the article you recommend Ramnode. Does Docker actually work on their OpenVZ servers? Their KVM servers are quite a bit more expensive than the $1/month you mentioned...

That's a good question, I was about to say "I'm running it on one", but then I realized I'm running HAProxy directly (it was before I dockerized it). I may try and report back...

EDIT: Damn, you're right. It complains about the kernel... Does anyone know of another cheap VPS I can recommend? OVH is at $3, but there are straight-up proxies at that price point.

What about the free micro server with EC2?

That can work just as well. I could never get that offer, I was already a year-old subscriber when it launched.

I thought so too. But then I went to an amazon aws introductory bootcamp and the evangelists told me that as long as the email you subscribe with is different, you can use the same credit card and you're good to go :)

https://www.atlantic.net/vps/vps-hosting/ Is $1, but haven't tried it

I use UnoTelly, which is a DNS service. I works perfectly for a multitude of services, including different Netflix regions.

I used that too, it's very good, but I didn't want to pay am extra $5 on top of the Netflix subscription every month.

How much do you pay to host your own proxy?

How many proxy do you run? Often, the movie you want to watch is hosted in another county than the US, do you then setup a proxy in each country when Netflix is?

I don't pay, I already have a VPS, so the marginal cost is free. I only run one, I don't watch that many movies and US Netflix is enough for me.

http://greenycloud.com/easy-vpn-with-digitalocean-and-docker... here is another method to run openVPN on docker.

Netflix,etc works however will be slow as every data has to be routed through the proxy.

There’s another way:

$ ssh me@host -D 4096

…then connect using the SOCKS proxy at localhost:4096.

That will proxy the large video files as well, wasting bandwidth.

you can exclude domains/paths in most modern proxied clients

The Hola Better Internet plugin for Chrome works wonders, and you can even chose the region you want to browse from.

Not quite sure what they get from the arrangement though...

Yeah, me neither, so I have a hard time trusting them... Plus, I wanted something that would work with my Chromecast (I just appended the hosts in my router's hosts file).

I think you get used as a peer according to their F.A.Q. :

https://hola.org/faq#in_cost

Be careful with Hola: they started injecting ads in all pages on Firefox at some point...

I use mediahint.com for it, which is now a paid service, but has worked great for me

I've been using http://adfreetime.com for it as well, costs $2/month/ip. Doesn't work with Amazon Prime anymore though.

Or just use Hola unblocker. :)

Using a vpn service (with a US IP) would work too, no?

Yes, but it proxies all traffic (rather than just the webpages).

so, you are now breaking the law + paying for a service that dont meet your needs + limiting your content selection.

why not go to breaking the law + not supporting services that dont meet your needs so one that can meet your needs eventually finds a market + unlimited selection?

going back to torrent is the only solution. remember that torrenting is what enabled netflix to even exist because before that movie distributors had deals so bad for online redistributors as to explicitly forbid them.

Netflix is more convenient. I want to reward convenience by paying for it. Torrenting for ever without paying isn't changing much, except towards the worst.

Also, I'm not breaking the law.

That's correct. Despite what most people believe, US laws don't apply outside the US.

you are paying a US company while agreeing to not watch it outside the US.

seems to pretty much go against what the intent of the law is.

Excellent use of docker

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