You will no longer be able to watch F1TV Pro from countered where it is unavailable, using a VPN. For example, the UK. You will instead see an error about your geographical location.

  • Bernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    How can they tell it’s a VPN connection?

    I’ve just checked with mine, they claim to be able to obfuscate that I’m using a VPN.

    Will find out on Saturday, not looking forward to going back to dodgy streams tbh

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      1 year ago

      The race replay for Hungary is a Pro video you can test now if you want to get contingencies in place.

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      1 year ago

      Don’t they have a pool of IP addresses owned by VPN providers? Or is it more sophisticated than that, eg they look at packet headers.

      Remember when mobile phone providers would block you if you were tethering to a phone by checking TTL count on the TCP packet headers.