Hello,

Netflix is logging VPN servers and as best as I can tell completely refusing incoming connections from them. Since Nord has its servers listed publicly they are quite trivial to blacklist. I believe having the dedicated IP service would help with this as Netflix couldn't know what IP that you've been assigned however they might still blacklist it. I've heard that even people running netflix through VPS servers on services like amazon AWS are having troubles with netflix blacklisting IPs. There are only so many IPv4 addresses in the wild and essentially all of them have been used up now. So it seems you will need to investigate other avenues to bypass georestrictions ;)

In summery this is an issue with Netflix and VPN services in general and the nordnm tool has no way of fixing it.

Thanks for clarifying this.. I can use nm-applet to simply disable VPN if I want to watch Netflix, that shouldn't be a problem.

However, using Nord VPN app on my iPad works with Netflix with no problems, so I wonder if it's 100% fault of Netflix. Maybe those apps on iOS/Windows somehow work better? And again, nordnm follows official installation guide from their website, so in theory it should work the same.

I tried to install nordvpn-bin from AUR and it worked. I avoided it because it says it's outdated, but it's AUR version of the official app.. so I guess I'll see if it doesn't disconnect often.

Thanks again for your reply.

That's interesting. Well, I might check Windows 10 app to see if it works there too. From what I see, nordvpn-bin uses openvpn for its connections, but unlike other script helpers, it doesn't disconnect on me.. so far. At least we established that it has to do with the app and – at least in my experience – official one seems to work much better than others.

I know this is old, but from what I understand of how NordVPN works you don't just need to connect to a Germany server but a Germany Obfuscated Server. The Nordvpn Android app has a setting that will allow you to connect specifically to obfuscated servers. I have had luck with connecting to an obfuscated server on my phone from the country I want to spoof and then making sure to log into that specific server with NordVPN-NetworkManager. (For instance Germany #530)

Obfuscated/unobfuscated doesn't make a difference as Netflix is blacklisting/blocking IP addresses that are known to be owned by VPN companies. They seem to do this most aggressively for American VPN servers. So really it's just luck of the draw to see if the IP you are assigned is blacklisted or not. Nord does also offer a dedicated IP address service but that costs extra.

Looking into it a little bit more I suppose you are right. I have had some luck with the obfuscated servers working on my instance so maybe if your having issues with it you could give that a shot as a work around. Also, I noticed that there isn't support for choosing to connect to an obfuscated server. If that's a feature we want I would be willing to implement that.