Privacy folks, I have a question!
How does the BBC know I’m not in the UK, even though I’m using UK servers on my vpn? I go to bbc.co.uk and it redirects to .com.
I have taken off location services, I’ve changed browsers.
I don’t want to use iPlayer, I just wanna understand how they know 🥸
Hello there! Well, the website www.bbc.co.uk can tell where you are accessing it from based on a number of factors such as your IP address, the settings within your browser or even through tracking cookies which have given out locational based metadata. The fact that it redirects to bbc.com in your case means that BBC uses GeoIP database services to match your IP location with actual geolocations and then decides what response should be sent back for a specific request.In this aspect, the use of VPNs may make look like some requests arise determine inaccurate location and simply block access resulting out query returning wrong data ir relative redirect requests. However, in many practical conditions developers just prevent requesting IPs routed over congestioned Path from expected regions too.
Ok, so it’s likely that even though I use a VPN (no leaks, etc), they’re using other information to determine that I’m not in the UK?
