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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
So websites can detect that a VPN is in use? I thought that the whole point of using them was to circumvent the age verification systems by completely fooling the Internet into believing that the user was in the country that they were pretending to be in?
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All a VPN does is deflect a connection so that it looks like it's going from somewhere else. It just shows it as connecting through the VPN instead of your usual ISP.
A website or other service will still be able to detect a VPN if they know which IP ranges are used by a VPN service.
They'd just add the VPN service's IP addresses or hostnames to whatever logic is deciding if age verification is required.
You could put a VPN on and try it and test by going to something like whatismyip with the VPN on and off.