I realize this has been known for quite some time now, but by blogging about it, I want to show my appreciation to whoever came up with this neat trick to get around ISP blocks and Pandora’s own block to anyone outside of the US.
For those of you who don’t know, Pandora is a cool radio site where you control the music you want to hear. If you haven’t checked it out already, get over there now- you’ll be happy you did.
Anyway, Pandora doesn’t allow use of their service to anyone outside of the US. Fortunately, neat little programs like Hotspot shield allow you to connect to an American VPN that give you an American IP and also prevent your ISP from monitoring your browser traffic, for the most part. This is also a sweet program that gets around anything else your ISP might be blocking. If your ISP is pretty strict on keeping their blocks active, they’ll eventually block the IP of the VPN that you’re connecting to.
Never fear. The Global Internet Freedom Consortium provides four or five more programs which are basically identical to Hotspot shield (without the annoying banner ad) and allow you do the exact same thing.
Now all you non-US users, go out their and stick it to the man.
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