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RedPanda
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PostPosted: 12:57 - 26 Feb 2015    Post subject: How can I show as browsing from America? Reply with quote

I'm at work and would like to watch free golf coverage except being in the UK it's shunting me to Sky Sports' website. Yes I know, golf...

I've Googled 'Proxy American IP' and have been on a few sites like fastusaproxy.com but my video won't load. Is there a tried and tested way of showing as being from America? I know people do it with Netflix.

Thanking you.
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PostPosted: 13:05 - 26 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do you have google chrome?

Search for, and add, the Zenmate extension.

It lets you connect via servers in other countries, including the US.

There's probably a version of it for firefox etc too.

Only problem is I'm not sure what the deal is with it. When I downloaded it it was pretty new and it was free, I can't remember if I read something saying they were gonna turn it into a paying service at some point.

Worth a shot anyway Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 13:10 - 26 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use Zenmate daily in Chrome, works fine Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 14:18 - 26 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've installed it and switched my location to USA and Hong Kong but no luck, maybe it's because I'm hooked up to a work server.

It's just irritating as I didn't have this problem last week. Anyway no worries, thanks for your help Smile
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PostPosted: 14:25 - 26 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lord Percy wrote:
Only problem is I'm not sure what the deal is with it. When I downloaded it it was pretty new and it was free, I can't remember if I read something saying they were gonna turn it into a paying service at some point.

https://support.zenmate.com/hc/en-us/articles/202224601-How-can-your-service-be-free-How-do-you-make-money-

Personally I rent a micro VPS instance that costs about 5 USD a year, from a deal I found on lowendbox.com. See for example this. I connect using ssh -D, which gives me a local SOCKS proxy. At home, I use FoxyProxy in Firefox to control whether to use the proxy on a case by case basis - by matching a regex against the URL, for example. Very handy for evading government censorship.

But Zenmate is the way to go for the moment, since they're giving the traffic away free (for now).
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PostPosted: 14:33 - 26 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

RedPanda wrote:
I've installed it and switched my location to USA and Hong Kong but no luck, maybe it's because I'm hooked up to a work server.


Doesn't work for me in China either, even if I set my location to Hong Kong.

Worked really well back home though.
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