[AccessD] Law of Unintended Consequences

[Rocky Smolin]

So I fired up this VPN to satisfy my curiosity about them. But I don't know
that I have a problem that the VPN is solving. Unless someone has a real
compelling reason to use it, I'll probably turn it off.

r

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 3:13 PM Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
wrote:

> 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.
> > >
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