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Netflix adds 13.1 million subscribers, tops revenue estimates (www.cnbc.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This is so strange to me. I guess people enjoy being ripped off and getting less and less value for their money.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

One way I have reduced my subscriptions is by using control d. I know vpns are popular on lemmy but I found it an annoying to have to have a vpn for each device I wanted to bypass a country lock. Moreover it was annoyyng for some devices like apple tv that does not support a vpn. Establishing a vpn on the firewall broke other services that I needed to work locally in my country.

Control d on the other hand is a dns proxy tunnel so you just alter the dns on the devices you want to use it, and in their control panel you can have different countries per service - so if you browse youtube that can go via a country that does not allow ads. Bbc iplayer can be told to go via uk and so on. This is a lot more convenient and allows you to retain your country for all services except the ones you want to tunnel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for this tip. I hadn’t heard about this before, and it sounds like an interesting thing to add to my tool chest.

so if you browse youtube that can go via a country that does not allow ads.

Can you tell me more about this? I’ve never heard about that this is a thing, and it sounds like a good thing to known

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Set your country to Albania, Moldova, or Myanmar and you wont get ads on youtube.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

For the annoyance, you could just use some open source firewall like opnsense to create a site to site to your VPN provider and route anything destined for your shady services through it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes I do use opnsense and it was more annoying than control d. I tried both options.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I see. IMO the opnsense method is good because it's set and forget, works across all devices without needing to touch them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean so is control d a set and forget. Even more so because they manage any changes and workarounds the companies come up with. Its basically designed for this. Having tried both options its my preferred option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have no idea what control d is