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Originally Posted by nffc
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.
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"All a VPN does is deflect a connection so that it looks like it's going from somewhere else.”
Err, no, no it doesn’t. A VPN sets up an encrypted tunnel between two endpoints. One end is your machine and the other is, well, wherever the other end of the tunnel happens to be. I will agree that if using a VPN then as far as the rest of the internet is concerned, you are where the other end of the tunnel is - but it isn’t all a VPN does.
"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.”
Yes true, if they are willing to expend the resources required to do this? Netflix generally does because of licensing issues. It’s all a 'whack-a-mole’ setup, unless you are sufficiently motivated, why bother?
"They'd just add the VPN service's IP addresses or hostnames to whatever logic is deciding if age verification is required.”
Why, why would they? And also they detect that someone is connecting from a known VPN supplier, they can’t tell where the person is connecting from. So what, they cut off everyone?
As per ’Sirius’s example above; imagine I run a site, say ‘filthyPornR-US.com’ based in Hungary, I have no presence, no office in the UK, why on earth would I invest time, effort and money in checking to see if any of my ‘clientele’ are connecting from the UK and go through all the efforts to age check?
Of course I won’t, and what can the UK do about it? Sweet FA really! Maybe get a Court order to instruct all UK ISPs to block access, and we all know just how effective these are (PirateBay, anyone?)