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by mcbridematt 3752 days ago
There was a report on the NANOG list of customers being flagged for VPN use while using an account in two countries simultaneously, but if one used another account from those IPs, there is no issue.

http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2016-January/083833...

I suspect this type of analysis plays a bigger role than most people think.

i.e A user jumping back and forth between US and Australian Netflix - faster than 'physically' possible, would act as a VPN flag.

Personally I had to change the end point of my home made VPN, but have not had any issues since. As a precaution, I have avoided region jumping. If I did, I would try and leave a realistic gap between any access.

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I am in the UK and have my user profile always set to the USA. It has been this way pretty much since I joined in 2013. I have not been blocked yet. My girlfriends user profile jumped between USA and UK all the time and was blocked when they started to crack down. Strangely, these two profiles both use the same registered account and unblock.us to switch regions.
I share my Netflix account with my sister who lives in Mexico, and we haven't had problems ... yet.