Editorial Policy

What This Site Covers

One person's documentation of streaming services and VPN tools, tested in rented accommodation across multiple countries over four years. Not a laboratory. Not a corporate review operation. A single paid subscriber, switching servers, watching error messages appear, and writing down what happened. Results from one city during one stay will not always translate to a different city or a later date.

Testing Window

A service that unblocks BBC iPlayer in the first five minutes can fail by the end of the same week. This happens more often than most reviews acknowledge. The minimum useful test is daily use across a full stay somewhere, which in practice means at least two to three weeks. If a service fails mid-stay, that goes in the review with a date and a location, not smoothed over. The same applies to speed drops, captcha walls, and anything that required opening a support chat to sort out.

Subscriptions and Spending

Every service reviewed here is paid for at the standard consumer rate, from my own account. No free trials exchanged for coverage, no promotional pricing, no accounts provided in advance by the company being reviewed. If a service offered a clean refund when I cancelled after a bad experience, that gets noted. If getting the refund required a fight, that also gets noted.

Affiliate Links

Some links on this site are affiliate links. Click one, sign up, I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. This does not change what gets reviewed or what gets said about a service that stopped working. If anything, the commission is a reason to be more careful: a recommendation that turns out to be wrong costs reader trust faster than it earns back any referral fee.

No sponsored content has ever appeared here. No service has paid for placement, a positive review, or a mention.

When Things Change

Streaming detection methods and VPN server pools update constantly. A guide accurate in one city in February may be wrong by May in a different city, or even in the same one. I update guides when I catch a change, but I cannot monitor everything in real time. If something in a guide looks wrong, the contact page is the right place to flag it. Corrections go in without fanfare: the content gets updated, the date gets noted.