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Run this whenever your IP changes to tell unblock.us about your new address. Fixes weird Netflix "internal errors", the Roku android app not signing in properly, and other glitchiness.
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update_unblockus.sh
#!/bin/bash
# Set this to the email address you use with unblock.us.
UNBLOCKUS_EMAIL="you@domain.com"
curl \
--url http://check.unblock-us.com/ \
--form "validated=1&email=${UNBLOCKUS_EMAIL}&rid=0" \
--user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Fi27.0" -q \
&> /dev/null
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