L4sBot@lemmy.worldMB to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoThreads usage drops as Meta blocks VPN access in EUarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1279arrow-down17file-text
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Threads usage drops as Meta blocks VPN access in EU::Move comes as Meta tries to avoid violating privacy laws.
minus-squareqwen@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 year agoThey check your IP address for geofencing, and it’s not something you can “not give a permission to look at”
minus-squareEncode1307@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoDoesn’t a VPN give you a different IP address?
minus-squareMugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoYes, but those IPs are fairly simple to identify for a company the size of Meta.
minus-squarejoel_feila@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoyes but those address are assigned to countries so a vpn can give a US device a Swedish ip address
They check your IP address for geofencing, and it’s not something you can “not give a permission to look at”
Doesn’t a VPN give you a different IP address?
Yes, but those IPs are fairly simple to identify for a company the size of Meta.
yes but those address are assigned to countries so a vpn can give a US device a Swedish ip address