iFollow - Football

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https://www.efl.com/iFollow/

 

https://www.efl.com/iFollow/subscribe/

 

Every club has their own iFollow page, from Birmingham City to Wolves.

 

iFollow is the company in the UK responsible for streaming football for the EFL (English Football League) Championship and Divisions 1 and 2.

 

You cannot login to their site, as "according to their records" you are using a VPN.

 

This is for all the AirVPN servers I tried, including in the Netherlands, Ukraine, and elsewhere.

 

You can't login, listen to audio or stream video, as of a week or so ago.

 

iFollow are connected with the NeuLion sports group in America, who probably use the same or similar systems/methodology:

 

https://www.efl.com/news/2016/july/efl-digital-new-long-term-partnerships-announced/

 

Football is a hugely popular sport world wide, with millions of passionate followers. If football fans can obliged to surrender use of VPNs in order to follow their club, then other parts of society will follow, and little by little it will be less possible in society to use the Internet with a VPN.

 

Is there a way to establish how they got these records?

How can one not have people know you are using a VPN?