walterj89

Today TunnelBear  was pretty cool.  For the last few days I'm been itching to try Pokemon Go.  For the last few days I've been just staring at "Not Available in you region" on the Google Play store with udder sadness and hearing other people talk about it with jealousy.  Ingress go me hooked in augmented reality gaming and I had to have this Pokemon DLC.  Well,  No longer am I a "have-not Pokemon Go", today TunnelBear made me a have.
 
Steps to achieve Pokemon Go Greatness within Canada:
 1. Create new Google account making sure to specify your account as being in the sucky ol USA  slightly less awesome United States of America.   I just hopped into Incognito mode for a couple minutes to make the account.
 
 2. Add this new Google account to your cell phone.  Don't worry, Android supports multiple Google accounts.
 
 3 Install TunnelBear. Make account. Flick the single button to turn on the VPN.
 
 4. Open Google Play Store, switch to the USA account, Search "Pokemon GO"
 
 5. Be delighted that the stupid "Chat for Pokemon Go" isn't the first option.
 
And I even have 450MB to go this month before I even have to think about paying anything.
 
Not bad TunnelBear.. Not bad.  No janky APK sideloading for me.
 
Now for Pokemon GO ...
  hold on ..
   I think I see something ...
    brb

Yes that is also an option, although I had already implied I would rather not do that.  Considering I already had a USA Google account this was easier.  Plus Niantic could potentially decided to ban people that sideload the app.  To my understanding it has happened with sideloading Ingress.  Also I'm not interested in verifying random APK files or dealing with updating random APK files.  Pokemon GO has already updated once and will likely update more.

At least that DVD drive can be replaced with a SSD with an adapter.