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It's 'geoconstrained' by just giving you a tick box that says you're in America. I wish all geoconstraits were that lazy.


Incidentally, crypto exchanges in the past (and one very recently, known as Bitmex) have faced issues with US authorities regarding this. Context: US citizens cannot trade unless the exchange is US-licensed.

Essentially, US gov applied pressure such that a simple tick box (to prove you are not American) is not sufficient. So, authorities definitely have precedent to enforce geo-constraints, it's just a matter of "do they care".


I'm guessing that these broadcasters will be happy to go from 0 to 500 viewers. YouTube hasn't killed them quite yet!


live in San Jose but my VPN terminates in Canada, along with all of my DNS queries, so the geofencing is really weak ;)

The video quality is really amazing.


It does not verify your location beside if you check the checkbox.




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