[AccessD] Law of Unintended Consequences

[jamesbutton at blueyonder.co.uk]

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 

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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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