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jamesmacwhite / Workarounds for Netflix and the blocking of IPv6 tunnels.md
Last active May 1, 2025 13:59
Prevent proxy/VPN streaming error messages from Netflix when using a Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel.

Workarounds for Netflix and the blocking of Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnels

The dreaded "You seem to be using an unblocker or proxy." error message. Cool story bro.

This gist was essentially created out of my own rant about Netflix being hostile to IPv6 tunnel services since June 2016. You are welcome to read my opinion on the matter, this is the more technical side to the issue and how to combat it within your own network.

Since I wrote this, various GitHub users have contributed their thoughts and ideas which has been incorporated into this gist. Thank you to everyone who have contributed their own methods and implementations.

The problem

Netflix now treats IPv6 tunnel brokers (such as Hurricane Electric) as proxy servers. A while ago it became apparent to users and Netflix that somewhat by accident, IPv6 tunnel users were being served content outside of their geolocation because of the way Netflix was identifyi

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davidedmundson / PlasmaNested.sh
Last active May 11, 2025 19:52
Run plasma from within gamescope
#!/bin/sh
# Remove the performance overlay, it meddles with some tasks
unset LD_PRELOAD
## Shadow kwin_wayland_wrapper so that we can pass args to kwin wrapper
## whilst being launched by plasma-session
mkdir $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/nested_plasma -p
cat <<EOF > $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/nested_plasma/kwin_wayland_wrapper
#!/bin/sh
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x43x61x69 / vnc_install.sh
Last active May 10, 2025 22:48
Steam Deck VNC Installation
#!/bin/bash
#
# Script for installing x11vnc on Steam Deck.
#
# Install:
#
# sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/x43x61x69/9a5a231a25426e8a2cc0f7c24cfdaed9/raw/vnc_install.sh?$RANDOM)"
#
# This will modify root filesystem so it will probably get
# overwrite on system updates but is totally ok executing