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F1TV now blocking VPN access (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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You will no longer be able to watch F1TV Pro from countered where it is unavailable, using a VPN. For example, the UK. You will instead see an error about your geographical location.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Confirmed, just tried with 2 different VPN providers and cannot access last weeks race replay now.

It honestly baffles me how blind sky and f1 are to how damaging this shit is to the sport. Now instead of getting 4-6 subscriptions within my circle of friends they will get 0 and we will all go back to pirate streams.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They will sleep just fine in their mansions tonight.

Exclusive broadcast rights will cease to be a thing when consumers stop participating and watching these broadcasts, but most are unwilling to cease consuming the content long enough to have an impact on the bottom line which is the only thing they care about.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've killed so much sport by shoving it behind a paywall.

Can't remember the last time I've seen any kids play cricket in the local park. Used to be rife, back in the day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably doesn’t help that crickets rules are so convoluted lol then again I’m American so it’s not like anyone here has ever even thought to try cricket

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You just hit it as far as you can, for 5 days. With a few well deserved tea breaks. Simples!

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lmao watch as pirated sites get record attendance this race

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Where can rent a ship? :D

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Sportsurge is my goto

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The issue with the pirate feeds are they are just the main feed from only a few broadcasters. Usually ESPN or Sky only, at least with what I’ve seen. So regarding multiview it’s not really useful.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

This is why people take to the high seas

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fucks sake, that was the only decent way to watch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was it though?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=3A19q7rysLs

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I love that companies complain about piracy, but then are the main reason why we commit piracy...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I was never able to watch the races live, I just wanted to watch the full race replay after the kids had gone to bed. I did it for one season with f1tv and a VPN, and then aborted and started picking up the Torrents of the race about 15mins of the race finishing, ready for when I wanted to watch on my Plex instance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got the cheaper F1 subscription for exactly this purpose as well.

However, they put a 48h delay on replay availability in my location, so I was forced to upgrade.

Now that they're hosting more events in countries with very questionable human and social rights (many nations in the Middle East and one in the Americas), I've decided to stop supporting F1 directly and I'm spending the money on tickets to my local GP and pirating the rest of the season.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've always wondering how long it would be before the replays are watchable after the race, I hardly ever watch the races live so was tempted by the lower tier F1TV subscription. But 48 hours? Fuck that, I'll remain a pirate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In some areas it's immediately after the race, but not for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Assume the UK is not one of those areas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

UK doesn’t have access to F1TV

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't get the live stuff but you can buy the tier with access to all the race replays.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but that is usually loads of hours after the race?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know, but I assume so.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly what I'm doing. The only way I watch F1 is through torrents and whatever they post on their youtube channel. I don't have the money for the subscription, and god knows they have enough billionaires involved in the sport that they don't need my money too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Someone else posted this link in another thread. Looks good for watching after the event. https://overtakefans.com/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's the best place to source those torrents or are they on private trackers?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://torrentgalaxy.to/rss.php?cat=7

pop that in a torrent client with an RSS reader like qbittorrent. set up rules as you please, enjoy automatic F1 downloads.

[–] Raverbunny 1 points 1 year ago

Some galaxy on the high seas can help, I'm pretty sure I can't post a link. Otherwise, r/motorsportsreplays usually post magnet links

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is upsetting. Been using IPTV to watch and was thinking of trying f1tv pro instead but that's now out of the question. I refuse to pay the £30 a month (or whatever it is) for sky sports, then the additional £15 for F1 when all I watch is F1!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nowtv is slightly more affordable

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Being Uk based and refusing to pay for sky I subbed to F1TV and have been watching races via VPN. Whilst I know it was against TOS it's still shit to loose access to live races on my Apple TV of iPad.

It was painful watching live streams full of adverts or especially as I tend to use an iPad and not a computer browser.

Annoying change.

[–] Raverbunny 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Those using Mullvad should email [email protected] Their staff found a server that worked and loaded up last week's race just fine. Not posting which server on here, I got a reply to my support request within the hour.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for the advice. Though it didn’t work out with F1tv app on ios, I managed to play Belgium FP1 using incognito mode on a Mac!! Hope it works out on Sunday main race

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Funny enough, I got lucky and could subscribe, I guess because I had VPN on. However, I cannot watch with VPN on, I get this region warning, but without it just works fine.

Cross fingers for me that it will stay that way. I won’t go to sky even if that means I cannot watch my sport any longer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Another reason to use IPTV...

[–] Raverbunny 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FYI ControlD works to get around this restriction, no VPN needed. Tested on Hungary race replay and that loaded up just fine from an Australian IP (pro is blocked downunder).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cheers. Could you possibly give a quick explanation oh how you set it up? I've taken a look at it and I'm confused. Haha.

Don't wanna pay for it if I'm not gonna be able to use it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think it’s this service https://controld.com/ it uses DNS to make it seem like your IP is something different to external parties without connecting to another machine/service to route your traffic through. In theory, much faster than VPN in some cases… nice

[–] Raverbunny 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's fairly straightforward. you first create a profile to use, in my case I used the VPN replacement profile template.

Then you create a device (in my case my windows PC) and link to the profile.

Finally you download a setup app, paste a code into it and you're done. App can be used to disable the DNS as well.

I must admit after using a VPN for so long it's a bit weird to start a stream without it and having it just work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've given it a try this morning and doesn't seem to be working for me. I bought the cheaper of the 2 options though. Which do you get?

Edit. Bought the more expensive option and ots working. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this from now? I’m currently on holiday in the UK and I’m using a VPN to watch the race.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. I live in the UK, but my F1TV was bought using a VPN to another country. When I go in now and try to rematch last weekends race, I get a geographical error message. Tried different countries on the VPN, same message.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Try Edge, I couldn't get it to work on Chrome, but Edge worked last weekend with France as VPN location

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Worked for me last weekend too. It's just gone into affect today I think.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

How can they tell it's a VPN connection?

I've just checked with mine, they claim to be able to obfuscate that I'm using a VPN.

Will find out on Saturday, not looking forward to going back to dodgy streams tbh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Don't they have a pool of IP addresses owned by VPN providers? Or is it more sophisticated than that, eg they look at packet headers.

Remember when mobile phone providers would block you if you were tethering to a phone by checking TTL count on the TCP packet headers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The race replay for Hungary is a Pro video you can test now if you want to get contingencies in place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Doesn't work now. Oh well, off to the high seas!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Damn, I'm so thankful Canal + dropped the exclusive rights in 2018...

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