How to get around geographic restrictions viewing online content?

Question

Sometimes I want to watch soccer video content on British websites, but they're blocked due to geographic restrictions (I live in the US). Is there a tool or something that I can use to get around this?

I assume the block is ip based. I'm not interested in setting up a proxy.

Solution 1

Use Firefox and the Modify Headers addon.

Tutorial: http://www.cynicsunlimited.com/2010/03/28/using-firefox-and-modify-headers-plugin-to-view-blocked-video-streams/

Solution 2

A no-brainer solution for Chrome is ZenMate

The ZenMate extension is a free VPN -like service that lets you access sites that are blocked or censored by your government or corporation

• You can switch between 5 countries with 2 clicks
• It's not limited to just a bunch of sites
• No speed/bandwidth decrease (as far as I can tell after some month of testing)
• No constant searching for new proxy IPs

Solution 3

Use a proxy service. http://kproxy.com is one option, but there are several others, search for "anonymous proxy" with Google.

Comments

[Jackson]

Duplicate: Several similar questions already. superuser.com/questions/2341/… for one

[Valentein]

The answer is regarding proxies, which I'm not interested.

[DWilliams]

The problem with this is that he wants to watch videos, which can sometimes be problematic through a free web proxy. Many proxies outright block flash and/or video content, and many others are too slow to watch a video without frustrating buffer times.

[Valentein]

+1 This is pretty much what I was looking for. Anything similar for Chrome?

[Valentein]

I'll look into that at some point for a different situation, but I was looking for solution that doesn't involve proxies. +1 for the answer though.

[petersohn]

@DWilliams There are some that I could watch YouTube with, for example the one I linked. It also doesn't have quotas. @Valentin If the site blocks you based on your IP, you have no other choice than to use a proxy.

[Alexandre Bourlier]

The link is dead