L4sBot@lemmy.worldMB to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoThreads usage drops as Meta blocks VPN access in EUarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square25linkfedilinkarrow-up133arrow-down12file-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-up0·2 years 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-up0·2 years agoDoesn’t a VPN give you a different IP address?
minus-squarejoel_feila@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 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 address are assigned to countries so a vpn can give a US device a Swedish ip address