A lot of video streaming services such as Netflix, Crunchyroll (if you’re an anime fan), Dramafever, have geographic restrictions. For those in the US, there’s usually no problems viewing almost 100% of the shows available in these services. However, for those outside the US, and especially in the Philippines, a lot of these content are inaccessible. In fact, according to Rappler, 93% of Netflix US titles are not available in Netflix PH as of January 2016. For Crunchyroll, it’s also the same statistics. If you are paying for these services from the Philippines, you might not be getting your money’s worth!

Fret no more – there is a way to trick these services into thinking that you are streaming from the US. The easiest option is to set-up a DNS Proxy. And I recommend SmartDNSProxy for this!

There’s a free trial for 15 days, no need to input any payment information so I suggest you give it a try! I am a satisfied user of SmartDNSProxy – I have been using this for a year already and just renewed my subscription this month.

My one-year subscription costs only 29.90 USD (which is around 1,500 PHP) – or 125 pesos a month! Considering the content you will be unlocking across 300 services, this is not bad at all!  Once you’ve activated your account, you simply need to set up the DNS on your device (individually) or directly on your router, so that all devices connected to it will have these services unblocked right away.  You can find the detailed instructions on the site so I really encourage you to do the free trial first just to ensure that your devices/router are compatible with the service.