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Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 month ago by return2ozma to c/technology

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[–] Psythik 17 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Speaking of which, can anyone please tell me why XHamster now requires a Virgina ID to visit the website, even though I live nowhere near that shithole?

Why does it have to be a Virginia ID specifically?
How the hell am I going to get a Virginia ID from out of state?
Why would anyone give a porn site their ID to begin with? That's a major invasion of privacy.

[–] IamAnonymous 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Are you using iCloud Relay or a similar service? Your IP is set to or is being routed through Virginia.

[–] Psythik 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No but I use a 3rd party DNS, which might have something to do with it, now that you mention it.

[–] JaddedFauceet 1 points 1 month ago

DNS translates a domain name "example.com" to an ip address pointing to the server. It tells your browser how to reach the server. It is unlikely the reason.

the common way to detect your location is by checking your ip address. Usually there is a database (i.e. maxmind) that keeps a record of which ip address subnet belongs to which location.