VPN Recommendation Needed

[Malcy]

My friend recently moved to the US and wants to be able to use iPlayer, ITV Hub etc. Said he has Roku sticks but I had a quick look and saw that they don't work as well with NordVPN or something, i don't have a clue basically so any advice on what would be best for him is welcome.

Said he can buy a Firestick or whatever if it suits better. Just hoping someone has a bit of experience with this that knows what's best!

[touchingcloth]

It looks like Roku sticks can't have a VPN installed on them, so if they wanted to use a VPN with it they'd need to have a router which could have the VPN installed, or look into how to setup a virtual router.

Not many routers are able to have a VPN installed, and virtual routers are faffy and relatively tech-heavy to setup[nb]Nord offer guides to both things, though: https://nordvpn.com/blog/setup-vpn-apple-tv/[/nb], so I reckon a Firestick would be the way to go, as it sounds from a quick google that they can have VPNs installed. Nord have an app for it, and I've been using them for a couple of years now quite happily - decent speeds and prices, and they seem to be quite focussed on user privacy, in terms of things like not keeping logs so they don't - allegedly - have any data which they could share with governments to grass you up for torrenting.

[Malcy]

Thanks for that, appreciate it. I'll let him know.

[Cloud]

+1 on Nord, they often have an offer on for things like "3 years for £70" as well.

The only thing that has me slightly concerned about it is... well, it seems like everyone and his dog that has a VPN uses Nord.  That makes it a huge target for the likes of the NSA.