F1TV now blocking VPN access
F1TV now blocking VPN access
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.
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.
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.
Lmao watch as pirated sites get record attendance this race
Where can rent a ship? :D
Sportsurge is my goto
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.
This is why people take to the high seas
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.
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.
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.
Someone else posted this link in another thread. Looks good for watching after the event. https://overtakefans.com/
What's the best place to source those torrents or are they on private trackers?
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
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.
I love that companies complain about piracy, but then are the main reason why we commit piracy...
Fucks sake, that was the only decent way to watch.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=3A19q7rysLs
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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!!
Nowtv is slightly more affordable
Those using Mullvad should email support@mullvad.net 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.
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
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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.
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.
Another reason to use IPTV...
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).
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.
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
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.
Damn, I'm so thankful Canal + dropped the exclusive rights in 2018...
Is this from now? I’m currently on holiday in the UK and I’m using a VPN to watch the race.
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.