Netflix, as any other streaming service, limits the content it serves based upon the country you live in. So how to get access to those shows not available for your region? Let’s explain you in a few simple steps how to change Netflix region the easy way.
Imagine you were on holiday, looking at that one great series as a Netflix subscriber, got to the last season and had to take your flight. When arriving home you notice you do not have access to that show anymore. “How does it end???”
Or how to check up on your favorite show at home when on holiday and not able to access it?
Or why even settle for a limited catalogue when Netflix happily takes your monthly fee time and again for a inferior service as an inhabitant of any other country? Let’s change Netflix region and solve your problem, so you can access for example the larger American or British version of the streaming service.
Step 1: get yourself a decent VPN
Many Virtual Private Network services (VPN) promise you to deblock Netflix content, but they fail miserably. Some of them are really expensive for the service they do not provide and free VPNs lack the promised security, the needed speed and data throughput to achieve this goal. Also, a lot of VPNs are ‘capped’: you are only allowed a maximum number of gigabytes a month, what makes video streaming virtually impossible.
Also, Netflix as a company is always improving its proxy-detecting capabilities, so better go with a service you can trust and safeguards your personal data and protects your privacy.
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Step 2: get your streaming going in 1,2, 3
Install your VPN as described.- Log out of your Netflix account.
- Clean your cookies and cache if needed. Do this regularly to protect your privacy. As an alternative you can enable the privacy mode on your favorite browser or even better, use a specific dedicated browser when doing this.
- Select the (virtual) country to watch Netflix in. Connect to a server in that country.
- Log in to your Netflix account
- Enjoy the (better, richer, different) Netflix content of the country you selected.