2020-02-20, 17:00
At the risk of derailing the thread for a moment, it's not VPN phobia. We do not ban them, we just don't support them, as detailed in the aforementioned VPN policy (wiki).
The simple reason is that Kodi does not need one to operate, and a high percentage of the times when VPNs are used specifically for Kodi are for applications which would violate our piracy policy (wiki) either through bypassing geoblocking or to attempt to hide the usage of banned addons (wiki) from ISP monitoring. Those are applications we want nothing to do with or association with.
You are quite correct that there are legitimate reasons to use VPNs, but they are more general (at a device level) than for use with Kodi. Hence their usage is beyond the scope of this forum to support (especially when they screw up how Kodi works), hence we ask that where Kodi issues etc are reported on such devices, any such VPN is disabled and it is confirmed whether those are the issue sources.
Also more generally we do not offer support for VPN issues as for paid commercial VPNs then you're paying for their support anyway (as you are for "free" VPNs as well, although you're paying for those anyway via your data etc), and for home-brewed ones then if you're savvy enough to set one of those up then you can debug it too (or at least there are better and more topic-specific forums than this one for such situations).
Anyway, now back to your regularly scheduled Amazon VOD...
The simple reason is that Kodi does not need one to operate, and a high percentage of the times when VPNs are used specifically for Kodi are for applications which would violate our piracy policy (wiki) either through bypassing geoblocking or to attempt to hide the usage of banned addons (wiki) from ISP monitoring. Those are applications we want nothing to do with or association with.
You are quite correct that there are legitimate reasons to use VPNs, but they are more general (at a device level) than for use with Kodi. Hence their usage is beyond the scope of this forum to support (especially when they screw up how Kodi works), hence we ask that where Kodi issues etc are reported on such devices, any such VPN is disabled and it is confirmed whether those are the issue sources.
Also more generally we do not offer support for VPN issues as for paid commercial VPNs then you're paying for their support anyway (as you are for "free" VPNs as well, although you're paying for those anyway via your data etc), and for home-brewed ones then if you're savvy enough to set one of those up then you can debug it too (or at least there are better and more topic-specific forums than this one for such situations).
Anyway, now back to your regularly scheduled Amazon VOD...
