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How do they know where a home is? Are they going to require Location permissions? Are they going to do silly geoIP things which are worse than useless?
by elric 4y ago
How do they know where a home is? Are they going to require Location permissions? Are they going to do silly geoIP things which are worse than useless?
- mnahkies 4y agoIt sounds like they are using a combination of device fingerprinting and ip addresses. Will be interesting to see how many people get false positives from VPN's or just having their ip addresses cycled > Make sure that the device is not connected to a VPN, proxy, or any unblocker service.
- elric 4y agoRelying on IP addresses for anything is a recipe for disaster. Device fingerprinting is even worse, given that everyone who is the least bit privacy-conscious has gotten quite good at resisting all kinds of fingerprinting techniques. I have 4 PCs I use frequently. If I watch Netflix on one today, get a new IP address tomorrow, and watch it on another device, I'm suddenly not at home anymore? Their PR and marketing team clearly suck. I hope they've got a really good legal team, because they're going to need it.