L4sBot@lemmy.worldMB to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoThreads usage drops as Meta blocks VPN access in EUarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up133arrow-down11file-text
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Threads usage drops as Meta blocks VPN access in EU::Move comes as Meta tries to avoid violating privacy laws.
minus-squareEncode1307@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoI’m in the US, and I hate Meta, so this doesn’t impact me, but can you disable location access on your phone to circumvent this?
minus-squareqwen@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoThey check your IP address for geofencing, and it’s not something you can “not give a permission to look at”
minus-squareEncode1307@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoDoesn’t a VPN give you a different IP address?
minus-squarejoel_feila@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoyes but those address are assigned to countries so a vpn can give a US device a Swedish ip address
I’m in the US, and I hate Meta, so this doesn’t impact me, but can you disable location access on your phone to circumvent this?
They check your IP address for geofencing, and it’s not something you can “not give a permission to look at”
Doesn’t a VPN give you a different IP address?
yes but those address are assigned to countries so a vpn can give a US device a Swedish ip address