Free VPN which works on FreeBSD

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balanga

I have never used a VPN and don't really know how they work but I would like to watch BBC iPlayer to watch the world cup but I'm outside the UK at the moment.

What should I do?
 
Dont use free VPN unless you want your data stolen. Use paid service like Proton or Mullvad. They both support WireGuard which works without any issues under FreeBSD. But i would recommend you get a router that supports WireGuard and run your VPN on it instead your OS.
 
Is there a specific UK channel that has world cup? (like Sky) There's a list that has UK/BBC streams.

I'd assume free VPNs would be blocked from geo-blocking if the provider specifically blocks VPNs (regional-priced services usually do it; free VPNs have more-known addresses/locations to be blocked whereas more-obscure VPNs might mask easier/not be as-known to know how to block em)

I'd pay for a VPN, and wouldn't go for mainstream ones (Proton, Mullvad, PIA, Nord, HMA; if it's popular it's no-go for secrecy :p)
 
Espionage724 said:
I'd pay for a VPN, and wouldn't go for mainstream ones (Proton, Mullvad, PIA, Nord, HMA; if it's popular it's no-go for secrecy :p)
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Wrong. Mullvad supports Monero payments and there is no KYC bullshit. With Nord you can get your own public IP and you wont be identified as a VPN user "by the internet services". If the privacy is your goal, dont bother with VPNs.
 
Good point. Was looking at webmail of fastmail and proton both wanted KYC... Whats the sense. proton was more money but added VPN that I don't need.
 
Espionage724 said:
Heh, the VPN provider I used for a few years and vouch for isn't on that site :p
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But who are you? Who can vouch for you or anything you say? If "your provider" is not there that makes it worse that the lowest rated provider on that site. That basically means it should be avoided at all costs.
 
MrBSD said:
But who are you? Who can vouch for you or anything you say? If "your provider" is not there that makes it worse that the lowest rated provider on that site. That basically means it should be avoided at all costs.
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Mainstream isn't always better, but I never heard of that KYC website, whereas I've seen that VPN provider mentioned on privacytools.io (early/when it was light/white themed and simple) and a few other places.

One particular point was that it isn't based in 14-eyes, and iirc they had WireGuard sooner than PIA
 
GNU-Radio has modules for DTV. What they do I dunno. Somehow you have to Demodulate the signal. I presume you could need to decrypt it too.
GNU-Radio seems more a frameworks to build things rather than a player.
gqrx is built from GNU-Radio for example. GNU-Radio does C, C++ and QT for GUI. Python too.

Look at the examples here:
/usr/local/share/gnuradio/examples/dtv/
Presumably an open source program would not be distributing pirateware examples so they are probably public DTV broadcasts.

Somewhere on the internets are hackers I have heard.

Now if you use your stick as true DTV tuner you might get different results. We have some DTV tuner stuff in ports. Webcamd enabled might give you something.
We have entirely different DTV systems here in the US.
 
One month won't hurt to try. I am afraid running with the heard will not get you far. If you were blocking things what first? Big provider or obscure little guy?
 
balanga said:
I'm thinking about getting a one month plan from Proton VPN for one month.

Any opinions? Will it work on FreeBSD?
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Every VPN provider that uses OpenVPN or WireGuard will work with FreeBSD. Im not sure about their applications, but you dont want to use them anyway. Check this tutorial.
 
The BBC is very picky about their geotagging. They block many known VPN providers. In first approximation they only allow UK residential IP addresses.

The soccerball world cup might have even tighter restrictions than they normally do.
 
cracauer@ said:
The BBC is very picky about their geotagging. They block many known VPN providers. In first approximation they only allow UK residential IP addresses.

The soccerball world cup might have even tighter restrictions than they normally do.
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In that case, just use "free" stream from a browser running in jail.
 
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