Watch Disney Plus Outside US Today (Easy Fix)

Bummed out you can’t watch Disney Plus outside US territories? That sucks cause you’re missing out on a ton of awesome content - a lot of Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm shows and movies.

Don’t be upset, though - we’ll let you in on a little secret: there is actually a way to unblock Disney Plus outside the US. Here’s all you need to know:

Can’t You Watch Disney Plus Outside US at All?

You actually can, but only in a few countries. Right now, you can only watch Disney Plus content in:

• Canada
• Australia
• New Zealand
• The UK
• The Netherlands
• Germany
• Ireland
• Austria
• Puerto Rico
• Italy
• France
• Spain
• India
• Switzerland

Also, it seems the site will become available in Iceland, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, and Belgium this summer.

If you’re in any of those places, congrats. For the rest of us, things aren’t that great since we might have to wait even more months or years to get Disney Plus - just like things went with Netflix when it started launching worldwide.

True, you can watch Disney Plus shows in countries where it’s not available if you do it offline. That means downloading content to your device before departing there, which isn’t really convenient. You probably don’t want to fill up your device with tons of shows and movies since you’ll need that space for photos and travel apps.

If you try to watch Disney Plus content online from a country where it’s not available, though, you’ll just get a preview landing page. It will only let you sign up with your email to be notified when the service becomes available in your area.

How Does Disney Plus Know Where You Are from?

Your IP address tells them everything:

• What country and city you are from.
• What your ZIP code is.
• Who your ISP is.

And Disney’s site will see your IP address when you try to access it - it’s in your connection requests, after all.

Based on that information, Disney Plus will use geo-blocking technology to redirect you to your country’s library or to the preview landing page.

Why Does Disney Plus Geo-Block Their Content?

Mostly due to copyright agreements.

Basically, Disney Plus doesn’t own all the content on the platform. And the copyright holders sold the distribution rights to their shows/movies to other platforms in certain countries. So Disney Plus doesn’t have the right to distribute the content there.

There’s also the fact the site hasn’t launched worldwide like Netflix. They need to geo-block their content where they don’t have any infrastructure to support the local audiences. Also, there’s a chance they sold the rights to local distributors, so they can’t stream said content in those countries.

Is the Disney Plus US Library the Best One?

Not necessarily. Things aren’t as bad as they are with Netflix’s libraries because Disney owns most of the content on its platform. So it can freely make it available in all the countries where it operates.

At most, you’ll see a few differences between the numerous Disney Plus libraries, but nothing that will make you feel like they’re ripping you off.

How to Watch Disney Plus Outside the US (3 Options)

Geo-restrictions sound pretty tough to bypass, right?

Well, we have good news - it’s easier to deal with them than you think! In fact, you have three methods you can try right now:

1. Unblock Disney Plus with VPN Services

A VPN is an online service that hides your IP address. It does that by routing your connection requests through a VPN server. So Disney Plus will receive requests from the VPN server, only seeing its IP address.

That means that as long as you use a VPN server in the US (or any other place where the site is available), Disney Plus will think you are located in that country. 

Besides that, there’s another perk to using a VPN for Disney Plus - traffic encryption. It prevents your ISP from analyzing your data packets and seeing you’re using a lot of data binging Disney Plus. So, they can’t throttle your bandwidth (lower your speeds) when you use the platform.

2. Bypass Geo-Blocks with a Smart DNS

This online service won’t hide your geo-location, but it will help you bypass geo-blocks by:

• Masking your DNS address.
• Routing your traffic through proxy servers located in countries where Disney Plus is available.
• Intercepting your requests to Disney Plus, and replacing any data that might leak your geo-location with new information that points to a whitelisted region (like the US).

That all sounds complicated, but using a Smart DNS is pretty simple. The app does everything for you. All you really need to do is turn it on, and start surfing Disney Plus.

3. Try Using a Proxy Server

A proxy does the same thing as a VPN - it hides your IP address by intercepting your connection requests to Disney Plus and forwarding them to the site’s web server on your behalf.

So you just need to use a proxy server that’s located in a country where Disney Plus is available.

Proxies also have an interesting feature - a local caching ability. Basically, they can save requested web pages to their local cache. If you request said content (like a web page on Disney Plus), the proxy can retrieve it faster for you. It’s already on the local cache, so it doesn’t need to forward your requests to Disney Plus anymore.

Which Method Should You Use?

It’s up to you, really. All those services have their pros and cons, and more or less get the job done. If you have a hard time deciding, check out this quick overview:

• If you use a Disney Plus VPN, you might experience some slowdowns due to the encryption (and other factors). But it’s usually not that noticeable if you use a lightweight protocol like IKEv2. Also VPNs can help you bypass firewalls to unblock Disney Plus at work or school.
• Unlike VPNs, proxies don’t offer powerful encryption, so you’re more likely to deal with bandwidth throttling. Also, free proxies (the most popular ones) are often overcrowded (slow speeds), and can’t unblock Disney Plus or bypass workplace/school firewalls 24/7. Why? Because they don’t have enough resources to regularly update their IP addresses.
• Because a Smart DNS doesn’t hide your IP address, it can’t bypass firewalls. Also, it doesn’t have any encryption, so it can’t prevent bandwidth throttling. On the plus side, no encryption means you won’t experience any slowdowns. So you can binge Disney Plus with your original ISP speeds.

Also, you should know that you can actually use an all-in-one service - basically a platform where you have access to a VPN, proxy, and Smart DNS. That way, if one option doesn’t work out, you have two other services to fall back on.

The Bottom Line

Disney Plus has tons of awesome content, but you can’t really watch it everywhere in the world yet. If you happen to live in or travel to a country where Disney Plus isn’t available, you’ll need to bypass its geo-blocks.Luckily, you can easily do that with a VPN, a Smart DNS, or a proxy. Or, even better, an all-in-one service that offers you access to all of them.

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