Reasonable

Expatshield now requests payment for access. Any alternatives?

GarryP

If you are looking for iPlayer, which apparently they have started trying to charge for, then I've had some success with the MediaHint add on (its a DNS redirection service) under Firefox (or Chrome apparently).

https://mediahint.com/

Jon77

pppffftttttt, does anyone still use ExpatShield?

It was rubbish when I used it and hope it is better now you have to pay for it!

Pollyana

Well I use it for an hour once a week for my fix of BBC Casualty, my only TV pleasure, Worked perfectly his afternoon and was still free, long may it last, its quick and easy

Reasonable

That's good to hear so it may be something down to my setup. Once I am connected and then access BBC iplayer it switches to a payment wall saying "purchase your pass to continue".
This has only just happened in the last day or so and worked fine previously.

Pollyana

I shall be livid if I lose my one bit of decent TV viewing, I'll check it again later on and see what happens then.

Pollyana

Oooh nice one

Pollyana

Looks like ExpatShield now links to the pay-per-view service on Hotspot

I've downloaded the Firefox add-on referenced by GraryP though and that seems to work fine with BBC iplayer...long may it last!

Bermudashorts

I found it very temperamental. Would work for a few weeks then not work for a few weeks. Gave up on it long time ago.

h2oskineil

Awesome find.... Well done!

Pollyana

Its fab

GarryP

All it is really is a proxy, driven by a .pac file. That means if you want to disable it, all you have to do is switch back to 'no proxy' (so you can keep it on standby for when needed, but not use it all the time). It also means they can change the proxy regularly, since you load it every time, making it harder to block.

Works on iPlayer, ITV Player and 4OD. Also works on Hulu, Netflix, Pandora and TheDailyShow is your taste runs more to american.

Works on Firefox and Chrome. Probably the only reason it doesn't work on IE is MS stuffed something up. Just wish I could get it working on the boxes connected to the TV.

DML

another thanks from me :-)

Pollyana

Thanks for the info - lets hope it keeps working!

scrubbedexpat020

Try Hola again. It's better now.