Crave is Bell Media’s Canadian streaming service, and it opens only for a Canadian IP address and a Canadian billing profile. A connection from Basseterre, Sandy Point Town, or Charlestown on Nevis gets a location notice instead of the HBO shelf. Connect Surfshark VPN to Toronto or Montreal, sign in with a Canadian profile, and […]
NOW TV is Sky’s streaming service for the United Kingdom and Ireland, and it checks both your IP address and your billing country before it shows a single episode. A connection from Chisinau, Balti, or Cahul lands on a location notice instead of the Sky Atlantic shelf. Connect NordVPN to London, sign in with a […]
The Roku Channel is free, ad-supported, and licensed for the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Mexico, so a connection from Manama, Riffa, or Muharraq opens to a location notice instead of the film shelf. The fix is a VPN server in a supported market: connect Surfshark VPN to New York or London, open […]
Russia’s Digital Development Ministry drafted a plan to use artificial intelligence to push the effectiveness of its VPN blocking to 95%, according to a front-page report in Kommersant. The measure is no longer in the current draft of the country’s national AI roadmap, but the machine-learning filtering project behind it is funded separately, and the […]
Filmin is the Spanish streaming service that treats film like a library instead of a feed: around 15,000 titles, hundreds of hand-built collections, and a catalogue built on European, independent, and classic cinema. It also checks your IP address before it plays a single frame, and it sells only to viewers in Spain and Portugal. […]
ABC iview is the free streaming service from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and it checks your location every time the player starts. A connection from Quito, Guayaquil, or Cuenca gets a location error instead of the programme guide. The fix costs nothing beyond the VPN: connect NordVPN to Sydney or Melbourne, open iview.abc.net.au, and the […]
Kayo Sports is Australia’s sports streaming service, and it checks your location every time a stream starts. A connection from Auckland, Wellington, or Christchurch gets a location error instead of the live grid. The fix is an Australian server: connect Surfshark VPN to Sydney or Melbourne, open kayosports.com.au, and the AFL, NRL, cricket, and Formula […]
Crave is a Canadian streaming service from Bell Media, and it checks your location every time the player starts. A connection from Sao Tome, Neves, or Santo Antonio gets a location error instead of the HBO shelf. The fix is a Canadian server: connect NordVPN to Toronto or Montreal, open crave.ca, and the HBO and […]
NOW, still widely called NOW TV, is a UK streaming service from Sky, and it checks your location every time the player starts. A connection from Copenhagen, Aarhus, or Odense gets a location error instead of the pass menu. The fix is a UK server: connect Surfshark VPN to London or Manchester, open nowtv.com, and […]
The Roku Channel is free, ad-supported, and licensed market by market, so a connection from Tbilisi, Batumi, or Kutaisi gets a location notice instead of the film shelf. The fix costs nothing beyond the VPN: connect NordVPN to the United States for the full library or to the United Kingdom for the British line-up, open […]