Originally Posted by
robt
Netflix have been blocking VPNs and proxies for a while now, so the only way you're likely to get this to work is to set up your own VPN on a VPS to fly under the radar, which is beyond the technical skills of 99% of people, on top of the cost. It can work through STBs such as Roku and Apple TV, as long as you set up alternative DNS servers as well, which is necessary to re-route traffic when you don't have a separate VPN app.
I used to do this using one of the big VPN services (that's now 100% blocked even though they fought it for a few months), back when the UK selection wasn't very good, but nowadays the UK has some content that the US doesn't and vice-versa. That's why I cancelled it long before the blocking started: I'd watched all the good US exclusives, which even didn't take that long. It's not as one-sided as it was. Over the last few years, the UK has been gradually getting more stuff that was previously US-only (recently added all the Star Trek series, for example). Still probably more movies in the US, but many of them are crappy B-movies anyway. The UK for some reason gets Pixar content that the US does not, although both will probably get more of this once the Disney deal goes through in September. We also got all 3 Hobbit movies, just one at a time. The US did not get these at all. Things like the original versions of The Bridge and The Killing are also on the UK Netflix, but the US only gets the English-language remakes, which aren't as good. We're lucky in that regard. Apparently the selection in places like Canada and South Africa is still really poor.
These days I don't think trying to find a working VPN service would be worth the hassle. I actually could set up my own VPN if I thought it was worth the cost and hassle, but I don't. Probably even less so for most people.