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Worth noting before any outcry about breaking copyright: A lot of these streams are geo-restricted (based on IP, afaik), or encrypted in some other way. It's not a 100% sure, free and easy way to view the content of streams you otherwise shouldn't have access to.

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I don't understand what the "publicly available" means. I tried some of them and they seem to require logins or paying accounts. Does this mean that for such streams, I'm in a geo-restricted area? I wonder where some of these would _not_ be geo-restricted (especially e.g. "Canal+").

It means they're available to the "public", whose meaning changes depending on what country you're/the channel is in. As an example, the Swedish broadcasts from SVT (government TV) is "public" but only for people in Sweden, so if you're on a IP "located" outside of Sweden, you won't be able to watch those streams.

i might be missing something, but there are not even any .m3u8 links on that page?

You can find them on their github repo [1]

[1] https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv?tab=readme-ov-file#playlist...

Excellent, now i am currently watching the Snooker on BBC2!

You are indeed missing something :) The "N stream" icon on the right shows you the stream URLs.

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