Today, for the first time, I couldn’t use iplayer. As usual, I switched country to UK, cleared browsing data, deleted everything from temp app data file before going there. Was using Firefox. Tried same procedure with Epic browser. Same result. Chatted with Nord support. They wanted screenshots of results from dnsleaktest dot com. Tech said wait while they checked it out. After a little while, chat terminated. Created a ticket via email.

Have BBC finally made themselves bullet-proof?

  • riley0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t know whether I’m knowledgeable enough for Tailscale, but I’ll give it a try. Thanks.

    • goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org
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      1 year ago

      @riley0 Your other comment hasn’t federated to my server so I can’t reply directly. Replying here instead.

      Tailscale isn’t a VPN in the same way Nord is, where it directs all your traffic through an external server. Rather, it’s a system for creating a “tailnet” of all the machines you install it on. It creates a personal little clique.

      For example, if installed on your phone and home PC, they can connect to each other anywhere in the world as if they are on the same network.

      In addition, you can designate any machine in your tailnet as an “exit node”, and optionally route all your traffic through it. This way, when out and about on 4G/5G, you can appear to be coming from home.

      Now I have machines in two countries. One happens to be the UK. By setting the AppleTV in the UK as my exit node, I look like I’m coming from my home ISP there. It’s resistant to VPN blocking precisely because it isn’t like Nord: it’s literally just my home IP address.

      So iPlayer works, Netflix login sharing works, and all that good stuff, because everything looks to be coming from one site.

      But that’s MY exit node, uniquely part of MY tailnet. If you don’t have a suitable exit node located, Tailscale won’t help you.

      Now Tailscale has just partnered with a traditional VPN provider to give you public exit nodes, Nord-style, but that’s susceptible to the same sort of traffic analysis and blocking that they’re using to target Nord, AIUI.

      Nord is still useful for torrenting, but for directly accessing geo restricted services, it seems to be losing the arms race.

      So you may need to resort to torrenting.