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Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 17 points 2 years 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?

  1. Why does it have to be a Virginia ID specifically?
  2. How the hell am I going to get a Virginia ID from out of state?
  3. Why would anyone give a porn site their ID to begin with? That's a major invasion of privacy.
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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago* (3 children)
    1. It thinks your connection comes from Virginia for some reason. Specifically, it thinks your public IP geomaps there. You can use https://whatismyipaddress.com/ to see where their database would pin it.
    2. You can't
    3. They really shouldn't. But the sites are asking for them because they are required, by law. The alternative is to block those connections, as PornHub decided to do.

    Such laws now exist in Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years 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.

    you can do a check with a reverse ip geolocation lookup tool to verify this.

    so either:

    • the company haven't updated their database yet
    • your IP range was recently bought or rotated by your isp
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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Might be their ISP. I know mine routes my stuff through some datacenter somewhere else in my country if I use ipv4 (probably because they don't have enough ipv4 addresses for everyone). Which I do, because their IPv6 protocol shits the bed if I actually use the bandwidth I'm paying for 🙄

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