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Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing age checks (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

There's services that not only check for known VPN servers, but also for IPs in datacenter IP blocks. So using a VPS could in theory also be blocked.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    You’re right they could. But I’m a systems architect who deals with university wide networks so I know what a cluster fuck that would be. It would be absolutely unmanageable. I’d wager there is no way in hell they are gonna do that.

    I’m hopeful that an adult in the room is going to show how unworkable this is gonna be but who knows.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I set up a VPS as a VPN server just for me. There's sites have definitely done this. Reddit for one. I get cloudflare captchas a lot as well.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    I also use that, and it's just all over the place.
    I've had issues with my carrier, so I just used foreign SIM in roaming for a while. €11 for 40GB is not that bad.

    And then I found I can't purchase a train ticket. For some reason, ZSSK (Slovakian passenger railway company) blocked IPs of Lifecell (Ukrainian MNO), but was fine with IP from RackNerd (Virginia).

    Oh, and the university I am at blocks IPs from "3rd world countries", the result of which was that Asburn, Virginia is fine, but somehow New York is a 3rd world country.
    Their instructions say to use any EU-based VPN.

    OneDrive uploads would only work for me over Mullvad without crashing.

    I also had Reddit block Czech T-Mobile IPs.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I travel a lot for work, and use a cell modem as my primary internet source. Even when I'm at home, I get cloudflare captchas and sites requiring 2fa all the time, since my IP changes constantly.

    I'm in SC, but constantly get geolocated in GA, AL, and NC.

    I put up a VPS with WireGuard on it just to allow me to always be in Seattle for banking and business sites that constantly require 2fa due to location changes.

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