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?

  • PeterPoopshit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1172·
    1 year ago

    If rich people and corporations are going to fuck the internet so hard it’s unusable, we should make a new internet. One with blackjack and hookers.

    • teamevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      It’s called the dark web and unfortunately they went WAYYY past Black Jack and hookers. I think you can go on there and buy a person…that ended up being the FBI the whole time.

      • rush@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        The “Dark Net” generally is still HTTP(s) with extra layers on-top, e.g the Tor Network or I2P

        We’re more likely looking at something like Gemini

          • rush@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I agree! It’s actually it’s own protocol, being built on top of the IP (internet protocol) ofc

            The webpages are essentially pure text. No JS, and everything is designed to be super privacy-friendly. Gemini is like the pinnacle of the SmallWeb

  • donuts@kbin.social
    59·
    1 year ago

    Well fuck. I can’t wait to try to explain this to my 65 year old parents who basically only watch British tv via VPN…

  • squid@feddit.ukEnglish
    321·
    1 year ago

    And this is why I only torrent and use third-party software for my media consumption needs

    • DocCrankenstein@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Can’t take it away if I already have it in my harddrive.

      I mean they can, but they have to find me first.

  • Morgikan@lemm.eeEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    BBC could ID a VPN IP address based on usage and concurrent sessions, but honestly most companies that block VPNs just purchase IP address lists from any number of vendors. Pixalate and DoubleVerify are two that I’ve worked with in the past that both provide that data to clients. They rarely ever block entire IP blocks though, so you might just try reconnecting from a different location/server within the UK until you land on one that works (if any).

    • riley0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      It used to be that they didn’t throw me out before I got to a program’s page. Today, upon login, they redirected me to BBC’s main page. Google tells me this: “In addition to the measures listed above, the BBC is also reportedly working on a new anti-VPN measure that uses machine learning to identify and block VPN traffic. This measure is still under development, but it has the potential to be more effective than the BBC’s current anti-VPN measures.”

      • Morgikan@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        I’m pretty sure ML is how Pixalate and DoubleVerify were building their lists, too. The difference is they were footing the bill in terms of resources and time spent to develop a solution. Training ML isn’t hard, its just really time consuming.