Getflix vs StrongDNS: which wins in 2026?

Getflix

promise only (no proof) · Seychelles - live contact page states 'Getflix is a brand of C Telekom, Inc., C Telekom, Inc., Digiport OU' with an address at Suite 9, Ansuya Estate, Revolution Avenue, Victoria, Seychelles; payments bill as 'C Telekom, Inc.' per the terms of use. The knowledge base footer separately says 'Licensed to SmartDNSProxy.com (C Telekom Inc.)', i.e. the same operator behind the Smart DNS Proxy brand

A Smart DNS, not a privacy product - and the honest scoping rule applies with full force: Smart DNS provides zero encryption and zero privacy. Getflix itself says so on its own FAQ ('Smart DNS provides no encrption or privacy, whereas a VPN does'), and Gizmodo's 2026 explainer confirms the category: nothing you do is hidden from your ISP or the network you are on. What you buy is DNS-based location spoofing for streaming on devices that cannot run VPN apps. Within that narrow scope the record is mixed: the brand is a 2012-era veteran with a genuine lifetime plan ($149), a free bundled VPN for paid accounts, a Trustpilot score of 4.8 across 1,205 reviews, and long-term users who report a decade of satisfaction with UK, AU and NZ unblocking. But US unblocking - the core use case - has been broken on and off since September 2024 per vpnMentor user reports and r/SmartDNS threads through late 2025 (Netflix US, Amazon Prime US, HBO, Paramount+), with unanswered support tickets; UK services kept working. Structurally: the operator is now C Telekom, Inc. of Seychelles (the Smart DNS Proxy company, with Digiport OU also named), the privacy policy was last updated July 1, 2013, the no-logs claim is policy-only and unaudited, and there is no refund window at all. Fine as a cheap streaming switch for UK/AU catalogs; wrong tool for privacy, and a gamble for US Netflix.

StrongDNS

promise only (no proof) · United States - Strong Technology, LLC, a Ziff Davis company, 114 5th Ave, New York, NY (footer on every strongdns.com page); corporate lineage: Reliablehosting/StrongVPN began as a South Lake Tahoe PC and dial-up shop in 1994-1995, StrongDNS trademark copyright 2012-2026

A relic that still technically works, sold by a corporate family with the worst possible privacy pedigree - and, to be fair, honesty about what the product is: the operator's own FAQ says StrongDNS 'only substitutes websites that are blocking users based on countries' while a VPN 'encrypts all of your traffic'. That is the whole product: DNS redirection for streaming, zero encryption, zero privacy, zero anonymity - the site promise on this comparison is that no reader should buy this believing it protects them, and StrongDNS's own FAQ half-admits it. As a smart DNS it is actually cheap ($5/mo, $4.17/mo annual, 7-day card trial, Bitcoin via BitPay) and unusually device-agnostic (consoles, smart TVs, routers). But the pages are a museum (FAQ answers last touched 2013-2017, an empty reviews widget), no server list, no locations, no retention policy, no audit, no canary, US jurisdiction under Ziff Davis - the same balance sheet as IPVanish, which court documents showed handing Homeland Security connection logs in 2016 despite no-log marketing - and a checkout that blocks customers using VPNs. Google News returns literally zero results for the brand and Reddit's r/cordcuters archive has no discussion of it. This is a legacy SKU kept alive for StrongVPN bundle value, not a product anyone should pick on its own merits.