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Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laszlo Hanyecz)
Mon Jun 6 12:05:51 2016
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From: Laszlo Hanyecz <laszlo@heliacal.net>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 16:01:29 +0000
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On 2016-06-06 15:21, Tore Anderson wrote:
>
> But Netflix shouldn't have any need to ask in the first place. Their
> customers need to log in to their own personal accounts in order to
> access any content, when they do Netflix can discover their addresses.
>
> Tore
Hey there's an idea, how about they ASK the users where they are
located, instead of telling them where they are located. Presumably a
user will have a new billing address when they move to a new place.
That ought to be a lot more accurate than lookup based on a static map
of number -> location. I don't think this is too crazy of an idea.. my
car insurance company asks me what zip code I keep my cars in. Netflix
could ask people what zip code they watch video from.
-Laszlo
