what is geoblocking?
refusing or altering service based on the country a visitor's ip address maps to.
the site looks your address up in a geolocation database, gets a country, and applies a rule: refuse the request, redirect to a local storefront, change prices and currency, or hide part of the catalogue. the drivers are streaming and sports licences, gambling and gaming law, sanctions compliance, and regional pricing. enforcement usually sits in a cdn rule at the edge, so it happens before any login and before the page is built. because the whole check is a lookup on your address, an exit inside the target country is the entire fix, which is why proxies are sold by country in the first place. two caveats. stricter sites cross check the ip country against your account history, payment method, dns resolver, browser timezone and language, so a mismatched setup still fails. and the databases are imperfect, so an address physically in one country is sometimes listed in another. myx sells exits in 166 to 202 countries depending on the product.