jamesmacwhite

Workarounds for Netflix and the blocking of Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnels

The dreaded "You seem to be using an unblocker or proxy." error message. Cool story bro.

This gist was essentially created out of my own rant about Netflix being hostile to IPv6 tunnel services since June 2016. You are welcome to read my opinion on the matter, this is the more technical side to the issue and how to combat it within your own network.

Since I wrote this, various GitHub users have contributed their thoughts and ideas which has been incorporated into this gist. Thank you to everyone who have contributed their own methods and implementations.

The problem

Netflix now treats IPv6 tunnel brokers (such as Hurricane Electric) as proxy servers. A while ago it became apparent to users and Netflix that somewhat by accident, IPv6 tunnel users were being served content outside of their geolocation because of the way Netflix was identifyi

patio11

Notes

This is the latest version of an email which I send periodically, offering customers the opportunity to pre-pay for SaaS in return for a discount. The benefits to the SaaS company are better cash flow and reduced churn rate. The benefits to the customer are, well, in the email. This genre of email has produced hundreds of thousands of dollars in pre-pays for some companies I work with, and it rarely requires any more work than this example.

I've put $79 is as a placeholder for the cost of the user's plan. We calculate that for each account, naturally, along with the billing contact's name.

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mralexgray

#!/bin/sh

# WARNING: You may have to run Clean in Xcode after changing CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY! 

# Verify that $CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY is set
if [ -z "$CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY" ] ; then
    echo "CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY needs to be non-empty for codesigning frameworks!"

    if [ "$CONFIGURATION" = "Release" ] ; then
        exit 1

jpawlowski

#!/bin/bash

# Sync Homebrew installations between Macs via Dropbox
#

BREW="/usr/local/bin/brew"

# first get local settings
echo "Reading local settings ..."
rm -f /tmp/brew-sync.*