Fellow Americans:

For anyone that watches cbs shows on their website in their eternal battle to, for some inexplicable reason, stop people from watching their shows overseas a new wrinkle has surfaced. This time, regardless of DNS mask or VPN it looks at the geolocation within the browser itself.

There is a workaround for Chrome, follow the instructions in this link:

http://www.techverse.net/hide-fake-geographical-location-websites-google-chrome/

Ad Blocker has once again been blocked, and as of me writing this Ad Blocker Plus hasn't updated the Easylist, and the blogosphere seems to have come up with a blank so far custom scripts

I have no problem viewing cbs.com with Firefox using the Hola extension. Nor with the Torch browser (a browser based on Chrome, which has Hola built-in on my desktop computer.

I also have no problems with the CBS app for Android and Hola on my Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 Duos.

Yes, I do have a problem with Ad Block Plus on when viewing CBS with a browser, (cbs.com won't play the video if the ads are blocked). I just disable ADP for cbs.com.

Of course, you can't block ads when you use the CBS app.

I noticed this a couple months ago.

Edited November 30, 201411 yr by BB1950

Now I don't watch shows on cbs.com but I did just go try to view some shows and when using VPN which gives me a U.S. IP address (I use StrongVPN) the shows played just fine...I was using Chrome. I then closed the VPN connection and tried again with my Thailand IP address and the shows wouldn't play/a geo block message came up. I had AdBlock Plus adblocker extension running with or without VPN

Now when I tried above with IE I got the geo blocking message with the Thai IP address but when switching to VPN "and turning off IE Tracking Protection" the shows played. The particular IE Tracking Protection I use is EasyList. With the Tracking Protection enabled I would get a message saying the video couldn't play because an advertisement couldn't play first.

Based on above I think using VPN with an U.S. IP address still works but you may need to adjust/disable whatever AdBlock/Tracking Protection you may be use with whatever browser you use.

Edited November 30, 201411 yr by Pib