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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.

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Duplicate: Several similar questions already. superuser.com/questions/2341/… for one – BBlake Apr 8 '10 at 19:32
The answer is regarding proxies, which I'm not interested. – Valentein Apr 8 '10 at 20:24
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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/

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+1 This is pretty much what I was looking for. Anything similar for Chrome? – Valentein Apr 8 '10 at 19:46
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Use a proxy service. http://kproxy.com is one option, but there are several others, search for "anonymous proxy" with Google.

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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. – DWilliams Apr 8 '10 at 19:42
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. – Valentein Apr 8 '10 at 19:47
@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. – petersohn Apr 8 '10 at 20:00
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