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Expatshield now requests payment for access. Any alternatives?

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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/

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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!

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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:

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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.

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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.

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Oooh nice one :)

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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:

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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.

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

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Its fab :thumbup:

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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.

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another thanks from me :-)

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Thanks for the info - lets hope it keeps working!

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Try Hola again. It's better now.

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has anyone used Apple tv? apparently you can get it jailbroken and get all of the uk channels over here

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As I understand it, there are no jailbreaks for the current Apple TV Gen 3 boxes. There's also likely to be Gen 4 boxes released soon.

In general if you want to make things like iplayer work, you want hacker friendly stuff, not apple.

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I bought a Roku 3 recently so I changed the WDTV that it replaced into a UK one and now I get iPlayer on it.

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Yeah, it's possible to get the WDTV to play ball with changing 'locations' - though the newer one is less hacker friendly. Problem is, you still need a full VPN it seems to get it to work.

If you can instead run a PAC based proxy (basically javascript based proxy decisions) then you can use something like Media Hint to only route the necessary domains via the UK, leaving the rest untouched. At least at the moment, that means hackery.

What I'm thinking at the moment is a proxy server that itself runs the PAC file to reroute requests. That would allow anything you wanted to appear to be in the UK to just use what appears to the device to be a static proxy, but which was itself a dynamic proxy. More research is needed to see if someone has already done this (probably yes).

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I think they are more hacker friendly, my understanding is the newer firmwares are what allows you to chop and change regions which were originally were hardwired into the circuitry.

What I did is this:

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archi...1604#r34464236

So my WDTV thinks it's in the UK and the Roku thinks it's in the US because I have that connected by ethernet into my old router which is running a sub-net, acting as a wireless booster for the front of my house where the signal is weak and uses the unblock-us DNS addresses.

So: Roku 3 for Netflix, Hulu+ Snagfilms, Vudu etc... and WDTV for BBC iPlayer and accessing my movies TV shows on the NAS.

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The benefit of the dynamically configured, local, static proxy, as described, would be that anything you directed via it would pick up the correct proxy address for iPlayer, Netflix, Hulu, etc. - all you'd need to do is send the device via that static proxy.

Got to see if squid, or another proxy server, will take a PAC file as a config.

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For those interested in getting a WDTV, for say, iPlayer purposes - Officeworks have them on a $99 special at the moment :

http://www.officeworks.com.au/retail...ers/WDBGXT0NBK