Netflix is available around the world and each country has its own custom Netflix library based on various copyright laws and limitations. If you want to see what Netflix offers around the world, unofficial Netflix online Global Search” (uNoGS), lets you search the worldwide library.
The global Netflix search engine, reports Gizmodo, will let you know which country’s residence will allow a user to watch certain content. How does this help? Users around the world who are savvy enough to use VPNs can set up a virtual residence to watch Netflix content that would otherwise not be available in their country.
“Unofficial Netflix online Global Search” (uNoGS)lets the user search for content by movie or actor. Results can be further whittled down by genre, type, audio, subtitle, Netflix rating, IMDB rating and the year it was released. Once the user finds what they want to watch, they simply need to use a cheap VPN service to fake the right country and — voila! — they can stream the content of their choice.
The creator of the site, “Brian,” told TorrentFreak he created the site for his own personal use but decided to go online last year.
“uNoGS is very much a one man show juggled as a hobby between work and family life. I initially built the site just for myself because the few sites that were providing a service like this were extremely limited in terms of search functionality,” Brian told TorrentFreak.
“I wanted to be able to see what was available in every country, when it was added, when it was supposed to expire and when it actually expired. Once I completed the initial build for myself I decided to share it with everyone and uNoGS went live in early May 2015.”
Earlier this year, Netflix Vice President of Content Delivery Architecture David Fullagar wrote in a blog post that the online streaming platform will be blocking proxies, VPNs and unblockers. Netflix maintained in an interview that the blocks will not be a big deal.
“I don’t think we’ll see any impact, we’ve always enforced proxy blocks with a blacklist, now we’ve got an enhanced and expanded blacklist, so I don’t think we’re going to see any huge change,” said CEO Reed Hastings in the Netflix Q4 2015 Earnings interview.
