After seriously using VPNs for several weeks now, I have realised they are an illusion.

Sites like ChatGPT get stuck in an infinite Cloudflare loop verifying your humanity while using a VPN, the second you turn off your VPN, the test completes. I have noticed this on several sites served by Cloudflare.

Other sites like Audible redirect you to your physical country of origin even when using a VPN and on a desktop machine without the aid of GPS.

This means any site is capable of detecting which country you are physically in and whether you’re using a VPN or not, the only question is whether they are incentivised to do so.

For sites like YouTube or X, they don’t currently care so will reflect the country your VPN reports to them in terms of country logo and content language.

For sites like Porn, who actually want your business, they will happily accept your VPN status.

But for sites like ChatGPT or Audible, who generate a better service by knowing where you are, they easily detect your physical location despite a VPN.

Lastly VPNs used by default degrade your general online experience.

Search results are returned in your VPNs exit node location and language, so if your VPN is set to Finland and you’re asking for coffee shops, you’ll get results shown in Finnish for coffee shops in Helsinki.

YouTube will bias recommendations based on your VPNs local language and location

Shopping sites will show products priced in your VPN exits country.

And many sites know you’re using a VPN and will simply refuse to show you anything while you continue to do so.

As an experiment, I set my VPN exit node to the UK, where I’m actually based, and suddenly many UK sites, like the BBC, stopped working because they knew I was using a VPN.

Peer to peer VPNs, like MysteriumDark mitigate this by exiting through users home broadband connections, but this is still easily detected by any service such as Audible who know where you are physically located. N.B. this knowledge is not based on GPS data, as this happens on desktop computers with no GPS.

In conclusion, VPNs only work to bypass restrictions because the service providers are either ambivalent or incentivised to ignore them.

Euro league tmrw maybe?

Spicccyy 🔥

The best way to get engagement is to post hot takes about the current thing.

Omg Current Thing!! So bad/good! 🫨🫨

It replying to that npub, looks shady

couldn't make it this time, keep the dream alive for me 😁

Only slightly worse than me🙏🏻.

I did mine at about 5 o clock this morning, I was very very drunk. Really excelled myself, I used an incorrect letter that I used on my first turn on turns 3 AND 4😂🥳.

Don’t I know it. I can unlock his phone and change it back myself when he’s sleeping because that is unacceptable to me 😂

Definitely breaking things 😂

No one playing I guess :-(

Nostr poker night tonight

Ain’t nobody looking for me lol

I literally have no idea what you’re talking about rn😂

I’m not driving lol

You listen to the government?

No time like the present. Learning has never been easier with AI

Tell Grok or GPT to explain to you the Power Law Model created by Giovanni Santostasi.

GM 🌞

how do you feel about reading? #asknostr

personally i find joy in reading when i learn something that i can apply to my life (that's why i stick to nonfiction/selfhelp books)

#GM #bookstr #reading

No one that understands the power law model is disappointed.

Don’t fight nature kids

Not completely, but when I do pop in it will be only to reiterate the obvious.

I just fucked around and bought it #yolo

That track is called in the place 🤌🏾

Yep. About 17 years ago i saved all kinds of art from a blog called MONSTERBRAINS. I recently found some of them including the pfp. Here's a sample of some others...

Yeah that’s the album I saw on Bandcamp

Yeah that’s the album I saw on Bandcamp

Annoyingly, I think it's one that's hard to find... lemme try to remember name...

🧐 i'm listening

I must.

I put a new spin on this #linux meme

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#Wordle.

🥳

A pavement Princess

Yep, you're completely right 😂

Not quite a Bart, we call this chart a “Sloth”

Left you on read.

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#Wordle.

Odd word today. Pleased with 3🙏🏻.

Sprechen die deutsch?

👀

pure distribution yodl ⚡

you can fund your zapping. What's your name "here and there" ? So I can offer some sats 😎

I have one more green, therefore I win according to the nostr rules