I think a lot of services end up sending you to a sort of generic "not in your country yet!" landing page in an awkward way that can make it hard to "just" get to your account page to do this kind of stuff.
Netflix doesn't have this issue but I've seen services that seem to make it tough. Though sometimes that's just a phone call away.
Though OTOH whining about this and knowing about VPNs and then complaining about the theoretical non-VPN-knower-but-having-subscriptions-to-cancel-and-is-allergic-to-phone-calls-or-calling-their-bank persona... like sure they exist but are we talking about any significant number of people here?
Obligatory side note of "Europe is not a country".
In several European countries, there is no HBO since Sky has some kind of exclusive contract for their content there, and that's where I was accordingly unable to unsubscribe from an US HBO plan.
> Not letting you unsubscribe and blocking your IP are very different things.
How so? They did not let me unsubscribe via blocking my IP.
Instead of being able to access at least my account (if not the streaming service itself, which I get – copyright and all), I'd just see a full screen notice along the lines of "we are not available in your market, stay tuned".
> Not letting you unsubscribe and blocking your IP are very different things.
When you posted this, what did you envision in your head for how they were prevented from unsubscribing, based on location, but not via IP blocking? I'm really curious.
