• Pyrodexter@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    they can see that all your traffic is going to one IP address and can guess/assume it’s a VPN

    Umm… What?

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      18 hours ago

      Like with phone carriers, ISPs can see the numbers (IPs) you are connecting to. If you use a VPN, you’re always connecting to the same IP, which is unusual from a regular user perspective and would tend to indicate VPN usage.

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        17 hours ago

        If you use a VPN, you’re always connecting to the same IP

        No, you’re not. A VPN provider can have hundreds of thousands of IP:s.

        which is unusual

        OK, but not unheard of. And even a dynamic IP might remain the same for months, if not years, depending on the operator.

        would tend to indicate VPN usage

        No, it wouldn’t.

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          7 hours ago

          Congrats on technically understanding how a VPN can work while completely misunderstanding how most public ones work in practice!

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            7 hours ago

            You keep telling yourself that.

            Sure, there are some specialized anonymity-focused VPN providers that only have a few IP addresses in order to have as many users behind each IP as possible, but that’s definitely not “most public ones”.

            Here’s the IP addresses I got from my provider just by reconnecting the VPN three times without even changing my virtual location:

            It’s weird how eagerly people speaking completely out of their asses tend to double down when called out. Even if that would have been true, your original claim still would not work at all.