Right, I am curious if you can still access content in your home country via VPN from overseas?

How could they know that ? They just block every VPN possible.

GEO-IP. If the GEO-IP matches the country I am a Netflix customer in.

Nope. If they suspect you're connecting through a VPN they just block your connection.

Heck, they block you if you use Hurricane Electric's Tunnel Broker to get IPv6 connectivity, even if the endpoint is in the same country and even though a) TB clients have unique subsets and b) IPv6 geolocation is unreliable shit.

And that's on top of the pathetic selection when you're trying to be honest with them and not fake your country. Screw that.

Interesting. The US now has ISPs that are allowed to track their customers and so people are forced to use VPNs to have a basic level of privacy and at the same time Netflix(and I imagine others will follow) are mandating you can't use a VPN.

This is a pretty crappy situation and I guess you can vote with your wallet.

I am surprised that Netflix which increasingly relies on their own content would feel the need to placate this Hollywood greed?

I'm also curious what heuristic they are using to decide if I am on a VPN?

EDIT:

From: https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-vpn-crackdown-a-year-of-fru...

>"It is still unclear how Netflix’s IP-blacklisting works. A few providers have noticed that some of their IP-ranges were already banned before they were active, suggesting that Netflix automatically flags IPs from certain organizations"