[AccessD] Law of Unintended Consequences

[Rocky Smolin]

"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 9:22 AM 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
>
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> Rocky Smolin
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>
> 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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