Beebs

Watch British TV from anywhere 🇬🇧📺

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Watch British TV from anywhere 🇬🇧📺

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A jolly-good single purpose proxy to unblock British TV.

Launch tags:Web App•Chrome Extensions•TV

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I don't mean to be "that guy", but how long until this will share the fate of all other VPNs that the BBC is currently blocking? We had a couple of years on VPN #1, then about a year on VPN#2 and the third lasted a month or two.

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7yr ago

TillyPay

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@andreasduess Absolutely no worries, it's always good to have a difficult question. Beebs is blocked about once every 3 weeks, we have plenty of back-up servers in place that starts redirecting traffic as soon as it happens. I don't want to give too much away here, but if the user blinks at the wrong moment, they won't notice the switch. We'd had maybe 3 hours downtime in the past year and that was mainly because of a domain expiring, school boy error. The main reason for it not working is that the user has installed another VPN extension afterwards. The joy of being a single purpose proxy, is that you can focus well on unblocking a few sites.

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7yr ago

TillyPay

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@andreasduess We've been active since 2016, they haven't gotten to us yet.

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7yr ago

TillyPay

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Why did I make Beebs? My grandmother was on holiday in Spain was struggling to watch BBC, so I built this for her. Some fun info: - 10k MAU, 5K WAU, 1K DAU - 400TB per month - 40k installs came from one reddit comment. - Yes, it's legal. - Decided against paywalling my existing userbase, so new users = paid, old users = free.

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7yr ago

@henry4 this is cool! but gotta teach me how to get 40k installs in one day lol

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7yr ago

TillyPay

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@edisonjoao6871 Just happened naturally, people needed to access to the BBC and my tool was the quickest/easiest way to do that.

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7yr ago

I had beebs for ages and then one day back in April it wasn't working so I uninstalled it and planned to reinstall it immediately as that had previously worked before when I had issues using iplayer. Upon trying to reinstall it, I was told to pay. I was an existing user but this pay wall stopped me from reinstalling it

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7yr ago