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-   -   ExpatShield (https://britishexpats.com/forum/australia-54/expatshield-810524/)

Reasonable Sep 26th 2013 4:24 pm
ExpatShield
 
Expatshield now requests payment for access. Any alternatives?

GarryP Sep 26th 2013 4:49 pm
Re: ExpatShield
 
Originally Posted by Reasonable (Post 10919981)
Expatshield now requests payment for access. Any alternatives?
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 Sep 26th 2013 5:05 pm
Re: ExpatShield
 
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 Sep 26th 2013 6:11 pm
Re: ExpatShield
 
Originally Posted by Jon77 (Post 10920003)
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!
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 :fingerscrossed:

Reasonable Sep 26th 2013 6:57 pm
Re: ExpatShield
 
Originally Posted by Pollyana (Post 10920045)
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 :fingerscrossed:
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 Sep 26th 2013 8:20 pm
Re: ExpatShield
 
Originally Posted by Reasonable (Post 10920079)
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.
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 Sep 26th 2013 8:24 pm
Re: ExpatShield
 
Originally Posted by GarryP (Post 10919993)
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/
Oooh nice one :)

Pollyana Sep 27th 2013 4:03 am
Re: ExpatShield
 
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!:fingerscrossed:

Bermudashorts Sep 27th 2013 7:44 am
Re: ExpatShield
 
Originally Posted by Jon77 (Post 10920003)
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!
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 Sep 28th 2013 3:24 pm
Re: ExpatShield
 
Originally Posted by GarryP (Post 10919993)
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/

Awesome find.... Well done!:goodpost:

Pollyana Sep 29th 2013 12:20 am
Re: ExpatShield
 
Originally Posted by h2oskineil (Post 10922260)
Awesome find.... Well done!:goodpost:
Its fab :thumbup:

GarryP Sep 29th 2013 9:36 am
Re: ExpatShield
 
Originally Posted by Pollyana (Post 10922654)
Its fab :thumbup:
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 Sep 29th 2013 9:42 am
Re: ExpatShield
 
another thanks from me :-)

Pollyana Sep 29th 2013 2:41 pm
Re: ExpatShield
 
Originally Posted by GarryP (Post 10923135)
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.
Thanks for the info - lets hope it keeps working!

scrubbedexpat020 Sep 30th 2013 9:58 am
Re: ExpatShield
 
Try Hola again. It's better now.


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