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Re: Which VPN?

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From: tracker1@VERT/TRN (Tracker1)
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Subject: Re: Which VPN?
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by: Tracker1 - Sun, 9 Jul 2023 14:18 UTC

Re: Re: Which VPN?
By: fusion to Nightfox on Thu Jul 06 2023 21:11:00

fu> yeah.. it's fairly easy to see when a connection is coming from a
fu> datacenter. i'm 13 hops from google at home and 6 from my VPS for
fu> example.. and being netflix they would probably just know who owns each of
fu> the routers.. so they don't even necessarily need an ip list.

Reverse DNS is also generally pretty informative as well.

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Re: Which VPN?

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From: fusion@VERT/CFBBS (fusion)
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by: fusion - Thu, 6 Jul 2023 21:11 UTC

On 06 Jul 2023, Nightfox said the following...
Ni> It's not just an ISP, but I've heard streaming services such as Netflix
Ni> are starting to do this to prevent customers from using a VPN to access
Ni> content that's normally not available in their country.

yeah.. it's fairly easy to see when a connection is coming from a datacenter. i'm 13 hops from google at home and 6 from my VPS for example.. and being netflix they would probably just know who owns each of the routers.. so they don't even necessarily need an ip list.

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