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Learned this the hard way when we moved abroad for a few months and wanted to get our American Netflix on.

No biggie, now we VPN into my home and use that connection to check out US Netflix: their blocking is entirely IP-based.

Exactly what I said in my comment and yet it was downvoted.

Netflix hasn't been able to block all VPNs. VyprVPN still works, for example.

Generally speaking, there's no way to detect if you're using a VPN. They block specific IP ranges belonging to VPN providers.