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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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[–] 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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