My double proxy solution to LaLiga blocks

jorti@pm.me (Juan Orti Alcaine) — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

If you are not aware, LaLiga (Spain’s football league) is blocking thousands of IPs in Spain every time there’s a football match on the TV to try to fight against the pirated football on the Internet. Of course it’s not working as the pirate sites continue being accessible without a hinch, but thousands of legitimate webs stop working. You can get more information about the affected IPs in the fantastic page ¿Hay ahora fútbol?.

I recently discovered that some strange errors I was seeing in some of my home lab services were caused by these blocked IPs. The affected IPs are hickjacked and the HTTP connections redirected to LaLiga’s web server. HTTPS connections will fail with a certificate error like this:

[Error] X509CertificateValidationService: Certificate validation for api.radarr.video failed. RemoteCertificateNameMismatch, RemoteCertificateChainErrors

To avoid these problems I have created this solution with two proxies and a VPN.

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My double proxy solution to LaLiga blocks