L4sBotMB to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years agoThreads usage drops as Meta blocks VPN access in EUarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1277arrow-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-square@qwen@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglish15•2 years agoThey check your IP address for geofencing, and it’s not something you can “not give a permission to look at”
minus-square@Encode1307@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish4•2 years agoDoesn’t a VPN give you a different IP address?
minus-square@Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish8•2 years agoYes, but those IPs are fairly simple to identify for a company the size of Meta.
minus-square@joel_feila@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years 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