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[Lotfw]

I'm in the Northeast US trying watch another countries (FR) streaming site. Any good Experiences with VPN services (free or paid)?

[bbald123]

ExpressVPN is very good with lots of servers worldwide and awesome speeds.

But you are going to find, or at least I did, that many streaming providers know the IP addresses associated with the various VPN services and block them.

Advertising the ability to stream from location locked services is, at best, misleading.

[Lotfw]

hmm thanks good to know

[nopirates]

i use NordVPN. it's not free, but it's also not super expensive. as was pointed out above, some sites (and i can't name them off of the top of my head) can detect if you are using VPN and will block location-based content, but for the most part i have found it useful and successful. it's worth it from a privacy point-of-view also.

the speeds are pretty good. occasionally i will switch hosts if things start to drag, but i find i don't have to do that very much.

Nord also has servers specifically for peer-to-peer, if you're living on the wild side.

(EDIT: i have nothing to do with Nord, i am just a customer that is reasonably pleased with the service)