Have you tried Tor?

I don’t think you can pick your exit node, can you?

I believe, from long-ago reading, that you can pick a region. I don’t use it myself, though.

EDIT: Sounds like it.

forum.torproject.org/t/…/14080

How to select certain country for exit node?

You need to modify your torrc and use ExitNodes.

It allows the use of fingerprints (if you want to use a specific exit relay) or country codes, which is what you are looking for.

Note the following warning from the man page:

Note that if you list too few nodes here, or if you exclude too many exit nodes with ExcludeExitNodes, you can degrade functionality. For example, if none of the exits you list allows traffic on port 80 or 443, you won’t be able to browse the web.

Ahh 10-4. Humm didn’t know that existed.

If they block VPNs exit ips which aren’t necessarily public they most certainly will block all the Tor exit nodes which are public by design.

IMO, Tor should be reserved for escaping repressive regimes and avoiding nation-state level content blocks. Plugging up the network with baseball streaming doesn’t seem like a fair or reasonable use of public resources

But… but… and I quote:

A few MB, not hours.

Also, part of the point of Tor is to let various types of traffic reside in the noise.

It’s like…say the only encrypted emails being sent contained stuff that one’s government didn’t like. It’d kind of stand out.

I can’t help, but commenting for visibility because I think this is clever. Cheers and good luck!

Whole post is AI generated

Huh, what gives it away? I missed it on this one

The overall voice and style.

Could just be autism. They overlap in style a lot, especially when making a request like this. A real possibility in this community

Autism doesn’t make you sound like a sales pitch.

It totally can through.

When making a request, and generally expecting to be misunderstood, autism can lead to over explaining and very logical detailed expression like this.

I was moderately effective as a salesman with this approach, with some limitations and caveats.

Also the bold text and headers (h1, h2 in HTML). No one does this on purpose, even more if it’s for pirating TV.

I do when I effortpost, or when I write docs for colleagues I like.

The give aways: starting paragraphs with a punchy sentence in bold with a colon.

Plus they used the “it’s not X it’s Y” thing.

Well now its “really” obvious when you spell it out lol.

Some people write that way, especially when they’re trying to talk about a complex topic. In fact that’s exactly the reason why some ai has that style, because it was trained on billions of pieces of human writing and that’s the style some people write in.

Worth a read if you haven’t: en.wikipedia.org/…/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

but hasnep covered it well. also emoji use, overly wordy and that graph/tree is a common style of llms.

Thanks!

en.wikipedia.org/…/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

That’s the probably most unhelpful and stupid thing I saw in quite some time. The AI or Not Quiz right at the beginning in particular regularly links the exact same things to human or to AI (404 links are a sign or AI hallucination or just natural link decay that show it’s from a human; wonky grammar is a sign for AI unless the text is human-written where it’s just bad english that LLMs would not produce intentionally…).

Yes, spotting AI by clear attributes isn’t easy. If it was those points would be changed first in training of AI. But lengthily discussing tell–tale signs then interpreting them in contrary ways depending on source is absolute bullshit.

emdashes everywhere

I love my em dashes, but I get it. There’s lots of other clues too.

The ASCII tree is very Claude code.

Gemini does the same style, I think mistral as well.

I don’t see a reason to assume that, but even if it was there’s certainly no reason to think that it was used as anything other than a writing aid for what OP was trying to communicate.

Yes but it definitely detracts from it being clever, and puts it more into the category of potential scam.

What it basically comes down to is this: do I trust some random guy off the Internet to use my Internet connection which is tied to my legal government name and the legal reprocussions that comes with that to access the Internet as if they were me?

The only way I would do that is if I gave it its own vlan and only allow Internet traffic to specific whitelisted ips. Even then my legal protection insurance definitely won’t cover that.

Yeah, I think it’s a bit sad it has to be like this… But it is what it is… I once moved and asked my neighbours if I could use their Wifi for a month, and that was basically their answer. Just that I wasn’t some internet stranger, but a regular stranger living nextdoors.

This.

However, there are plenty of residential proxy services to purchase. People are willing to sell their liability for perks, and others are willing to buy. I’m sure there’s a whole dark economy around this. It’s what OP is asking for without the extra steps.

TorGuard offers residential dedicated IPs. And there are proxy services that have that as there business model for circumventing chaptas when scraping the web. I would look there brightdata.com/proxy-types/residential-proxies oxylabs.io/location-proxy/uk torguard.net/residential-ip-vpn/

TorGuard’s exit nodes are only in the US, so doesn’t solve the problem OxyLabs seems to block Streaming in their TOS BrightData doesn’t block streaming, so I’ll dig into that one. Thanks for the suggestion!

OxyLabs seems to block Streaming in their TOS

but you won’t be streaming, technically you just need that for the login

Just use a pirate streaming site. There are tons that stream live sports

Any tips? Seriously asking for a friend. I don’t Carr about these things.

The r/piracy megathread is all you could ever want.

www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megathread/

Scroll down and click on the “sports” category

Why not use the VPS?

Ovh has UK VPS hosting

They usually block these IPs.

The content host blocks IPs based on reputation (VPN exits are well-known) but so many people have done the exit through a VPS that those IP blocks are poisoned and could go at any moment. A true residential IP can’t be blocked because those are legitimate customers

“MLB only checks your location at the moment a stream starts.”

This is/was what Pandora.com did, and the solution was to run a small proxy that directed the exact login url through Tor with a Merican endpoint while stream was normal, but you can just select an EU/UK endpoint instead.

I used a Tor proxy - privoxy, I think - from the openwrt package repo, but others exist, and for other platforms…

Just do it the easy way and get a $20 a year iptv subscription.

Suggestions?

That doesn’t unlock the long tail of MLB games. IPTV groups really only unlock 2-3 MLB network channels that don’t cover all games

I do this for the NHL for the same reasons you’re struggling with. IPTV let’s me watch any game for any team full stop.

This seems like the perfect scam for Lemmy for setting up a fresh IP for launching a cyber attack/scam with a real residential IP. Helping a community member while circumventing shitty corporations. (Not saying OP is, just that it would be a decent scam)

This requires either an insane amount of trust in a random person or gullibility. Plugging a random mailed device into your network, even behind a VLAN.

I definitely would never do this if I didn’t have absolute full and complete access to every part of the pi’s software, or preferably set it up myself (optionally in collaboration with the requester) and the requester only had read-only access to it.

That or AI scraping. (It was a game I was wrong)

xda-developers.com/smart-tv-apps-residential-prox…

isn’t piracy easier?

Yes, but live content piracy is still in its infancy.

No it’s not. See my other post about the megathread

This is a cool idea, and I love the hacker energy behind it, but I agree with some of the other comments that the receiver would have to trust you quite a bit to allow hardware into their house. Even with the SSH view-only accounr, you could be putting the SSH server in a VM so that the client thinks they’re seeing the whole OS but they aren’t.

Alternative idea would be to provide an open source ansible script or docker compose file to spin up everything you need, and let them verify and deploy it themselves. Then they give you the wireguard configs to remote in.

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access VPN Virtual Private Network VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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Honestly i feel like i would trust a custom application for this more than random hardware.

Something like Cloudflares warp bit for this where the hoster approves what you get access to.

Warp is(probably) boringtun <-> smoltcp <-> pingora.

Edit. As many have said pirating is easier.

And the application would have to allow list IPs and tls retermination too since sni could be forged.

Well it could be fine with sni validation and target IP filtering, but I still don’t like the idea

Cool idea but maybe you are over-complicating it? Wouldn’t just an exit tunel from someone work better for you? No hardware to manage etc.

btw. The post screams that it’s written by AI. All it’s missing is some smoking gun.

100% agree also asking for a roundevous network makes it very suspicious

After reading all the comments and mulling it over while eating dinner. This does NOT feel legit or like a random request.

The fact that you want 2 seperet VPNs one for management screams illicit activity, or atleast like you are selling residential proxies.

I would be tempted to to say yes so I can get the SD card, but it would probably just be “nothing to see here”

He could simply just pay for vpn. Very unlikely it is legit.

Grab a iptv login on alibaba. Price of 30 bucks a year. Evrry game