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a browser extension to bring security and privacy to chrome, firefox, and opera
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Feature Idea: Region Spoofing #185

Open Kn0wnWho opened 7 years ago

Kn0wnWho commented 7 years ago

Simple concept--> Video or Website unavailable in region currently at--> Option to Spoof Region --> Video available, basically it could be integrated with time zone spoofing so that it does not need much of a tweak since the zones are already there just need to add the location to it, here is one of the videos: image

AykutCevik commented 7 years ago

Since the region filters are mostly based on your IP address this won't work I think :/

nyancat18 commented 7 years ago

@aykutcevik the use your IP and add some extra info (many duplicated code) UTC -4 América/Caracas UTC -4 America/La Paz
for example

doesnt help much (caracas and la paz has utc -4), here you should use this

example: you're trying to see a spanish channel use spain timezone (utc+1) and a spain vpn (if they're using flash, the proxy doesnt work)

Nemisor commented 7 years ago

You'll need a VPN to successfully spoof that, it cannot be done through the browser alone.

Kn0wnWho commented 7 years ago

Well I know that most of the things can only be "spoofed" through VPNs and special clients but I just thought that there could be a way for