[AccessD] Law of Unintended Consequences

[Stuart McLachlan]

VPNs route traffic through  pools IP addresses (doing address translation between your real 
IP address and the one assigned to your connection from the pool).

Many VPN services use multiple pools of addresses in (or assigned to) different countries. 
.
Evrery time you visit a site through a VPN, the final leg uses the pool address you've been 
assigned.
.
If the site is using that IP address for targeted advertising, it will either use geo-location to 
see where that address is nominally located, or use info it has stored about the last visitor 
that came from the address.    

You may like to read: https://allaboutcookies.org/vpn-disadvantages

On 24 Jan 2024 at 9:31, Rocky Smolin wrote:

> "Problem is if you have a Virtual id for connections to those out
> there permanently assigned,"
> 
> Ithought, though, that you get a different virtual ID every time you
> use the VPN, Not so?
> 
> r
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 9:22AM James Button via AccessD <
> accessd at databaseadvisors.com> wrote:
> 
> > Yup,
> >
> > Main idea of using the VPN is to hide your location, and the device
> > 'ID' used by your system to connect to the internet.
> >
> > So those sites that allow you to not allow cookies cannot note where
> > your connecting device is  (well, we live in Hope, Death valley just
> > off the coast of Japan !)
> >
> > Problem is if you have a Virtual id for connections to those out
> > there permanently assigned, then whatever those send to that id gets
> > passed on to you.
> >
> > So - do you want to be able to logon with an email id, or to have to
> > establish your  id through a different process for every connection
> > for a session with the site you are linking to !
> >
> > JimB
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: AccessD
> > <accessd-bounces+jamesbutton=blueyonder.co.uk at databaseadvisors.com>
> > On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 4:21 PM
> > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> > <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>; Off Topic
> > <dba-ot at databaseadvisors.com>; List <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> > Subject: [AccessD] Law of Unintended Consequences
> >
> > I'm using Google's VP1 VPN. Since implementing it (I'm near San
> > Diego, BTW) I've been getting some odd search results - looking for
> > some shoes locally the browser thinks I am in some other state. A
> > Nationwide survey came up in Mandarin. The weather site thinks I'm
> > in D.C.
> >
> > Realized that, I think, with a VPN your location is where the IP is
> > that received by the site. Is this correct?
> >
> > Inconvenient, but not very. I hope running a VPN has some other
> > advantage because I don't see any other difference in my browsing
> > results.
> >
> > r
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