@normonator
@lemmy.mlThat really is clever. Imagine if they put that kinda thinking into making their product better instead.
Using the firewall to force dns because the services were stupid enough to rely on dns to determine location. You would use a (usually paid) dns service hosted out of the wherever the content you want was and get access to region locked stuff like the US netflix library from abroad. This worked because vpns were being detected and rokus dns was hard coded so assumed to be trusted.
I don't know if this still works because I no longer own anything Roku and Netflix's service hasn't been worth that kind of shenanigans for a long time. It likely doesn't work anymore.
Edit: Unblock-US used to be such a service
One reason used to be to switch to a different region for Netflix, etc but I'm not sure if that still works, I haven't had to use a Roku in a long time.
I agree. I disable transcoding and use direct play. Jellyfin is a multi device library for the files on my nas.
I was on the author's side but then I read the back cover... it seems like it might involve penises.
The only plan I would believe he has is shitting himself and saying it was on purpose.
That guy has fuck all rattling around up there that why he preys on kids.
Just so you know that's mostly a worse/feature locked jellyfin. Jellyfin was forked from emby as emby-unlocked when they started doing stupid shit in the name of monetization.