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		auiya on Oct 29, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Xfinity Is Man-in-the-Middle Attacking My Internet One problem with this approach is many streaming content providers identify known VPN egress points, consider them methods for subverting region-restrictions, and thus won't serve ANY data to you. Netflix does this w/ PIA (and probably others) for instance.

souterrain on Oct 29, 2019 [–]

Netflix has known netblocks[1] though, so you may bypass VPN for those or similar content networks.

[1] https://bgp.he.net/AS2906#_prefixes

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