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Not really, this happens with any VPN service to the point that if VPN providers were more honest this is what they would tell people: Online stores are more l
by neither_color 4y ago
Not really, this happens with any VPN service to the point that if VPN providers were more honest this is what they would tell people:
Online stores are more likely to flag your purchase as suspicious on the admin side(e.g the Shopify console)
You will run into captchas and prompts for authentication more often
You may not be able to log into some of your more sensitive services(like banking)
Streaming sites will block your server eventually
Even if you spin your own wireguard instance on any major cloud provider you're going to run into the same issues.
- judge2020 4y ago> Online stores are more likely to flag your purchase as suspicious on the admin side(e.g the Shopify console) I'm not sure a VPN provides much utility when you're already punching your (billing|shipping) address and CC number into a website - that is, unless you're using a drop site for your packages, which definitely will make you look like someone who has stolen CC digits and is trying to cash in on them.
- neither_color 4y agoWell, to give one use case example, when I'm traveling I want to access websites from a US IP address so that l18n settings on websites don't serve me in another language or metric units by default. That's one way I use VPNs that have nothing to do with trying to hide from the NSA or whatever people think they're doing.
- phatfish 4y agoEncountering a foreign language AND the metric system. The stuff of nightmares!