But I live in Texas, and I’ve been using a VPN for like a year to get around new forms of censorship already. I guess we’ll wait and see and I can tell you if a VPN does in fact work for this.
The funny thing is that I’ve had to change the VPN location from Louisiana to Denver because other southern state are passing similar laws, too.
If you mean porn sites or reddit or whatever demanding an ID because of porn content those companies have no way of verifying who you are or your real IP, all they know is where your connection request is coming from, what that IP is and maybe things like your timezone. That’s all. They aren’t in a position to really verify off anything but IP address.
Google and Apple on their phones especially (not so much Macs and Chromebooks or Ipads) have multiple good ways of strongly determining with high reliability exactly where you are because of cellular networks, because of GPS and aGPS, because they have your billing info, etc.
But I live in Texas, and I’ve been using a VPN for like a year to get around new forms of censorship already. I guess we’ll wait and see and I can tell you if a VPN does in fact work for this.
The funny thing is that I’ve had to change the VPN location from Louisiana to Denver because other southern state are passing similar laws, too.
If you mean porn sites or reddit or whatever demanding an ID because of porn content those companies have no way of verifying who you are or your real IP, all they know is where your connection request is coming from, what that IP is and maybe things like your timezone. That’s all. They aren’t in a position to really verify off anything but IP address.
Google and Apple on their phones especially (not so much Macs and Chromebooks or Ipads) have multiple good ways of strongly determining with high reliability exactly where you are because of cellular networks, because of GPS and aGPS, because they have your billing info, etc.