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Eunice Beady
Thanks pogster. I watched a video on how to put the netflix link on the desktop of the Mac and it works for streaming. I was wondering why there is no app for Macbook. Netflix say it is Apples fault or doing and to ask them.
Thanks Lanny, I've subscribed to netflix since 2015 and streamed their content, downloaded movies to watch while flying etc. I have an app on my samsung phone allowing me to download movie's and series off-line.
About 6 months or so ago, my computer stopped letting me go to netflix, but just on my laptop. Any other device on my network can access it just fine, and if I take my laptop to someone else's network, it still cannot access it. According to my ISP, my Mac is most likely blocking the site as a security measure. Unfortunately, my Apple Care plan ran out a year ago, so Apple's of no help unless I pay them $40.
Similar forums I've seen would lead me to believe that it's a DNS issue, since I was traveling in the UK around the time that it stopped working.
Can anyone tell me how I could unblock this site? Or at least circumvent my Mac's security for this site?
Do you have hot spot shield installed or anything similar? How about Little Snitch or similar? If not, try opening system preferences then security&privacy and turning off firewall and see if Netflix loads. If it does, there is your issue. You can also create a spare account in users and see if it works
That's not your Mac blocking Netflix. That's something you've done to block Netflix. In all likelihood, you (or somebody helping you with your internet access in the UK) changed your DNS addresses to something that would work in whatever network you were using in the UK. Just change the DNS address(es) back to match the ones in your other computers.
The VPN approach is better in this case, because now websites are using smart javascripts, cookies and all kinds of scripts to detect if you are using a proxy/dns and what is your real ip address, but if you are using a VPN you will bypass their security searches and you will be safe.