Which VPN for Netflix still works in September
Nine regions, six services, re-tested weekly. Two providers lost Japan this month and one quietly got it back.
See the resultsHotel Wi-Fi is still the weakest link: what 40 check-ins taught us
We connected from 40 hotels across 12 countries with the same laptop and the same three services. Four countries had captive portals that silently dropped WireGuard traffic, two hotels blocked VPN ports entirely, and one chain injected its own tracking script into unencrypted pages.
The fix took one setting in every case: switch the protocol to the provider's obfuscated or stealth mode before you connect to the portal, not after. Full country-by-country notes, plus the two services that handled every network without intervention.
