Assuming a direct business relationship, there's no reason they couldn't hand-pick or filter out the good hosts, and then put the rest in the general pool.
Re:How Is NordVPN Unblocking Disney+?
by brianpgordon on Friday November 29, 2019 @08:51PM
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It works perfectly for me.
He wasn’t talking about NordVPN speeds. He was talking about the sort of services offered by Oxylabs, Honeygain, PacketStream and other similar proxy services.
Re:How Is NordVPN Unblocking Disney+?
by brianpgordon on Saturday November 30, 2019 @02:05AM
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Well isn't the whole article asserting that NordVPN is routing traffic through residential endpoints to confuse would-be VPN blockers? I thought that the allegation is that there's no distinction between the Oxylabs network and the NordVPN service.
The allegation is that they use a Oxylabs-like service for disneyplus.com specifically. Your speed test result using a Total Servers Solutions LLC connection to a non-disneyplus.com destination is irrelevant to that allegation.
Edit: Another comment pointed out that maybe only the front domain is geoblocked, but not the video CDN domains. That would make sense. Now that I think about it, youtube-dl also has a --geo-verification-proxy option that works in the same way.