This is not a matter of connection type, but purely based on the ISP. My parents and me both have DSL, but with different ISPs. Their IP is geolocated in the nearest big city, while mine is geolocated halfway across the country, in the city where the ISP company is registered. In any way, you're never gonna get an accurate GPS location based on IP, city at most.
That's not true. It's a matter of the location site. IPs don't have "locations". These sites guess where it's located based on data they bought. While countries are mostly correct, any further information is likely false.
@@moweME You can also use a whois lookup as vague geolocation. Thise are based on registration data with the Regional Internet Registries and not something guessed from data collecting. It also DOES depend on the ISP and how they assign addresses. If you have a static IP or the ISP assigns certain IP ranges to the same local areas frequently, geolocation will be more accurate than with an ISP assigning their IP pool randomly across the country.
He answered it, he said some Internet service providers show a very accurate gps location some don't, and using a vpn does add another layer where it shows you being connected to the Internet from another location.
It really depends and using a VPN that you don't fully control or understand it's workings, might pose other risks: the vpn operator can bypass for instance the firewall you setup behind your router and if you have open ports, the vpn operator (or even other vpn users) may have access to them. It depends also on which app you are using: if you allowed google browser to access your location data, then VPN will not prevent to get you in the correct location, and way better than IP address databases.
You use a VPN to hide your IP address that can be connected to your physical location. But your phone also has GPS that can locate you regardless of what VPN you use. It is suggested to turn off location services .
The problem is with GPS tracking disabled, you loose access to lots of features. Honestly the best thing you can do is not make yourself a target in the first place, then no need for location security.
Fun fact: I had to install ArriveCAN app when i visited Canada. They said it doesn't track you. (it does. they lied) I was under quarantine and I turned on my VPN which showed my location as somewhere else. The police showed up to make sure i was still in quarantine...
For most connections it will give you the location of the datacentre your ISP is routing you from and so you'll get a generic location which won't be exactly where you are. He mentioned fibre would give his exact location - in our office we have a fibre connection but the location is still wrong, so I guess it depends on the ISP. What IP geolocation IS good for is when limiting access to a resource from a particular office rather than the region as a whole. You should be able to know what the WAN IPs of your office are and use that to limit connections to resources unless they're connecting from that IP, also for Geolocation as applied to a whole country as opposed to a specific region, for example allowing you to log in from the UK only, but not necessarily limiting logins from a specific town or county because often that won't be specific enough. I hope I didn't get anything wrong but please add to this if I did!
That location lookup is the cheapest available, so it doesn't get accurate location from the ISP, who may or may not have your best interest in mind . This is why VPN ISPs brag about not keeping the kinds of logs that other ISPs must keep .
ISPs log your data so they can sell it... The average user will use the ISPs DNS servers and the ISP can see where your traffic going from and to. Its valueable data.... The reason VPNs will CLAIM to not log your information is because they are selling a security product and not capturing logs is a selling point. It also allows them to refuse government inquiries for logs because they don't have them. They can't hand over what they don't have. For some people this is a matter of life and death, such as jounralists in unstable regions.
If you are unsure if you need a VPN then the answer is most likely: no, you do not need a VPN. These companies have marketed their service so hard over the years that normal people have started actually believing that they need it. It's so dumb, for most people it will only have disadvantages.
Only then, now your VPN knows where you are. You really only change who has access to the data. Also, even most cable networks only give out your location within "nearest largest city". Mine shows being located in Vienna, which is over 150km away from me.
Had about this recently in a course: you are hidden from the isp but the vpn you use will be able to see everything So it should depend on who you trust more Besides where I am from the isp is not allowed to do anything with your data - but of course it might be useful if you visit certain places or countries
You never need a vpn unless it is to circumvent geo restrictions (which aren’t nearly as common as youtube sponsorships claim they are). And if you use a vpn it should be something you have control over (openvpn running on a vps for instance).
Plus, geo-restrictions get better and better, through DNS leaks and such. So now most VPNs can't even get around a simple Netflix geo-restriction, even when they still are advertised for that.
i wouldnt say that at all. a vpn is very useful if you find yourself using school wifi, airport wifi, hotel wifi, etc. VPN’s are also useful because it lets you blend in with a crowd of users who are also using that server. Having a VPN on a VPS is almost always less secure. Youre now just trusting the data center in which youre hosting your VPN, instead of a reputable VPN company like Mullvad. Also, since no one else is connecting to that VPS server but you, you’ll be way easier to identify. tldr: VPNs are great if you use public wifi often or want to obfuscate who you are (note i didn’t say anonymize). And hosting a VPN through a VPS is only useful in select scenarios.
while i'm no expert in the field, my basic understanding is that IP addresses for the most part are geolocated to the city your in at best, but if google wants to know your location, they don't need an IP address if your using a phone, they got Google Maps and GPS Satellites which are 10 times more accurate than your IP Address generally.
When I was roaming in Canada, my external IP still showed me as being in the US, and not even my home state. Google likely knows your true location from other factors, though.
It depends upon isp, my previous isp used to show location 60km away from me, current one shows location 150km away and my friend who has static ip, actually has location that is more than 400km.
@@onemangamer587 no, either a) his ISP (EE) is routing traffic through the centre of London b) the IP (or IP range) was, at one point, used by someone at the centre of London, hence the IP detection attempt resolves there. These are just best effort attempts by companies.
My ISP has a head office in Copenhagen. Their network is Fibre based and fast. So my location shows up as Copenhagen. Over an hours travel from my actual location, at highway speeds. I know how their network is setup and my IP address for local is assigned internally and from the outside.. I use a collective shared IP. So I can not host network based services like a website... Unless I pay for a static IP. So I am partially protected by my ISP's policy on IP assignment and charging for external connections. Yes, no locally hosted services available to the WAN.. but Protected from the WAN as well.
Yeah guys I'm totally trusting the VPN company that offers their service for 1$ a month and spends billions on ads more with my data than my ISP. Totally.
Cellphones have a GPS. Perhaps it isn't a IP address indicating the physical location. In Android, one must go into Developer mode to override with a false GPS location.
Please note, that even if you use VPN, you can still BE TRACKED, and most if not all operating VPN services have agreements with governments to share data upon requests.
@@BLKMMEDIA All mainstream VPN companies share your data with multiple US/Other GOV organisations, or they have agreements to share data upon requests. The VPN companies are just like any other business entity. They follow government regulations and cooperate with them.
A fiber connection still dont show the exact location. Its up to the ISP to register the IP on an area. It can't pinpoint you, but its fairly close usually to the same city or town. However with WiFi scanning it is possible to pinpoint someone exactly
Does it matter if you're using an app that uses your GPS location? Does it matter if you use a browser that doesn't flush your cookies all the time? Not to mention the possible DNS leaks if you haven't hardcoded the setup yourself... your ISP will know exactly what VPN you're using, and in many cases what domain names you look up, because your computer receives the necessary setup, to reach your VPN in the first place. VPN is overrated if used by common people that just wants stuff to work.
Absolutely agree. For most non-business use-cases, a VPN is really just a way to add one encryption layer to the network traffic departing and arriving to your device. Which is only really useful for when you're on an unprotected network (like public wifi) and using a website/app that doesn't use an encrypted protocol... so basically almost never for most people nowadays.
@@matthieurochette public wifi without separation somewhat makes sense, because your DNS requests will most often not be encrypted. But most browsers default to HTTPS today, and panics if that's not available. The service provider at the other end of the connection will know plenty about you unless you really know to hide your cookies at all times... and common people don't know.
While successful connectivity to VPN client on phones, it changes/ hide its real public IP to VPN geolocation . So, it means our end devices connected to vpn virtual like overlay network. No split tunnels there to access intenal network but your traffic were still observable on VPN server end. I hope so.
depends if your in a public space and not on your home network probably best to use a vpn, that being said if your on your home network and you want to hide connections to less than legal websites or access restricted website that were blocked by the isp then vpn is your guy, if your just going on Facebook or RUclips probably not
Note that the government can request your personal information from your Internet Service Provider, and the ISP will almost always comply and give them not only your location, but also your name and other identifiable information they can use against you in a court of law. Your VPN providers may do the same. Only VPN's that contractually agree not to log any records of VPN connections are safe to use.
Vpn companies have servers in several countries, each server has an ip when you connect to vpn you browse the website through thier server's ip, websites can simply make a list and put inside it the ip of every server of that vpn service
@@doglifehub Also, when internet traffic is routed through a VPN, specific ports are often used and the headers of packets change. This makes it even easier to block VPN connections to websites.
If I’m not on WiFi everything online thinks I’m in Chicago, I am most definitely not, considering I’m about 470 miles away. I love that everything cellular routes through Chicago from where I am.
Lies! Your home Internet is NOT correctly geolocated in the UK. Your IP address is more likely to show the location of whichever exchange houses the DHCP server responds to your handshake, which won't be your local cabinet. Or it will show the address of the ISP's corporate office because their IPs will more likely be registered to that address.
False, you do not need a whole VPN, but just a proxy. In the case the ISP doesn't already obfuscate (for security purposes or because of technical limitations) your position, of course.
Can you not scare people... it doesnt give your location, it gives the area of the "node" you'd be connected to. usually within a "few miles". unless you're the only person in that radius, its impossible to get an address from an IP alone. unless you're the ISP.
That's not true. It's a matter of the location site. IPs don't have "locations". These sites guess where it's located based on data they bought. While countries are mostly correct, any further information is likely false.
Other than to stream geo-restricted content, I honestly don't see an advantage for a normal user or of an exploit that depends on your general location. If you don't want your ISP to know what you are doing, oh well, now it's another group of people who know what you doing (vpn provider), what makes you trust this other group more than the ISP...
depends on precission. of gps is open a you give browser location access or close access rights browser scripts can detect your location precisely... also there is ways to detect if cocies are open from the sites you wisited ad clicked if this sites has iformation thats needed indrectly ;P like your lical banks site or library ;)
Your fiber connection would show “where you are…” I mean 🤦♂️ do you honestly think you’ve cleared anything up here? You start with rfc1918 and end on the public side with the absolute minimum amount of information. Your public ip doesn’t typically (almost never) can be correlated to your actual address. It’s almost always a very general location, with the generality varying from region, state, county, or even country scopes. In the rare cases when your address is exposed, it’s usually because the service is registered to a business and there are local laws mandating such. A vpn to hide location is only really useful for a handful of specific scenarios.
Can you advise if I can hide my location with VPN when using Citrix to connect to my office network? My office does not allow foreign remote working and I want to hide my location if I am abroad.
I remember looking at my IP on my phone or my laptop connected to my hotspot. And it thought I was in California, but at that time I was in Washington.
can i ask something ? is the vpn provider as NordVPN or other Vpn provider keep your public ip address in memory ? somewhere in their logs or somewhere in their infrastructure ?
No really, I have fiber optic and my location is 300km in a different city. This is provider-specific. I live in Prague 5 and my ip shows my location in Ostrava city. (Both Czech Republic) My optic fiber provider is from Ostrava city and my optic cable goes all the way to my room, 2 feet from my PC and the the router is connected via ethernet cable to my PC.
Only use I have of a vpn is if I want to pretend to be in another country or if I don't trust the WiFi I'm connecting to as both my phone and home network is run by ISPs that route traffic through their internal network in such away that my public IPs location will always be one of their server halls and none of them are close to my actual location
Do you agree? Do you use Starlink or another ISP to hide your location / would you recommend it?
yes
Yes
@davidbombal I can't thank you enough
Thanks
I’d use subnetting and a vpn.
Starlink I think would be better than the average ISP if you use mobile.
Oh and then use qubes for anything non mobile
This is not a matter of connection type, but purely based on the ISP. My parents and me both have DSL, but with different ISPs. Their IP is geolocated in the nearest big city, while mine is geolocated halfway across the country, in the city where the ISP company is registered. In any way, you're never gonna get an accurate GPS location based on IP, city at most.
That's not true. It's a matter of the location site. IPs don't have "locations". These sites guess where it's located based on data they bought. While countries are mostly correct, any further information is likely false.
@@moweME You can also use a whois lookup as vague geolocation. Thise are based on registration data with the Regional Internet Registries and not something guessed from data collecting.
It also DOES depend on the ISP and how they assign addresses. If you have a static IP or the ISP assigns certain IP ranges to the same local areas frequently, geolocation will be more accurate than with an ISP assigning their IP pool randomly across the country.
Not true. Mine is virtually next door
@@ZeeWatcher1000 Do you have a static IP? And by any chance a phone with GPS, connected to your WiFi?
Yeah but with a normal ISP your gonna be in the neighborhood area and anyone tech literate can find you
RUclipsrs actually say questions they can never answer 😏😏😏
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It's a complexe question where you need more time to explain, They do that so you look the entire video and not just the short
He answered it, he said some Internet service providers show a very accurate gps location some don't, and using a vpn does add another layer where it shows you being connected to the Internet from another location.
@@HeyWhat50 trust me in the entire video, he will conclude just with the same line
@HeyWhat50 no it isn't.
I was about to say “Yea and no” and David said “It depends “
I guess we’re on the same page then 😊
It's the answer no one wants to hear - right? But in life and networking, the answer is often - it depends 😂
It really depends and using a VPN that you don't fully control or understand it's workings, might pose other risks: the vpn operator can bypass for instance the firewall you setup behind your router and if you have open ports, the vpn operator (or even other vpn users) may have access to them.
It depends also on which app you are using: if you allowed google browser to access your location data, then VPN will not prevent to get you in the correct location, and way better than IP address databases.
@@davidbombal you almost sound like my wife now! She often says “maybe“ when she’s not in for a straight answer 😂
@@SwissPGO this is a very well put explanation!
Until someone looks up your map history or parcel tracking history, VPN ain't going to do anything about that.
You use a VPN to hide your IP address that can be connected to your physical location. But your phone also has GPS that can locate you regardless of what VPN you use. It is suggested to turn off location services .
The problem is with GPS tracking disabled, you loose access to lots of features. Honestly the best thing you can do is not make yourself a target in the first place, then no need for location security.
you can always mock location in developer option
Fun fact: I had to install ArriveCAN app when i visited Canada. They said it doesn't track you. (it does. they lied) I was under quarantine and I turned on my VPN which showed my location as somewhere else. The police showed up to make sure i was still in quarantine...
Canada, the western gulag country
Things that “actually happened”
I thought you would talk about local and internet ip address😂
Do you mean internal (RFC1918) vs public (Internet) IP addresses? I think that's a good idea for another video 😀
@@davidbombal yeah
@@davidbombalsir, pls make one video on that.
Not just that but why its different between fiber cable and wi-fi when we talk about location like u did.@@davidbombal
I also thought you probably going to talk about private versus public in ipv4 @@davidbombal
For most connections it will give you the location of the datacentre your ISP is routing you from and so you'll get a generic location which won't be exactly where you are. He mentioned fibre would give his exact location - in our office we have a fibre connection but the location is still wrong, so I guess it depends on the ISP.
What IP geolocation IS good for is when limiting access to a resource from a particular office rather than the region as a whole. You should be able to know what the WAN IPs of your office are and use that to limit connections to resources unless they're connecting from that IP, also for Geolocation as applied to a whole country as opposed to a specific region, for example allowing you to log in from the UK only, but not necessarily limiting logins from a specific town or county because often that won't be specific enough.
I hope I didn't get anything wrong but please add to this if I did!
using a non-square Swiss Flag
you, sir, have just become a Persona-Non-Grata in Switzerland.
This is why you shouldnt be scared when a random guy on the internet says ur IP
That location lookup is the cheapest available, so it doesn't get accurate location from the ISP, who may or may not have your best interest in mind . This is why VPN ISPs brag about not keeping the kinds of logs that other ISPs must keep .
ISPs log your data so they can sell it... The average user will use the ISPs DNS servers and the ISP can see where your traffic going from and to. Its valueable data.... The reason VPNs will CLAIM to not log your information is because they are selling a security product and not capturing logs is a selling point. It also allows them to refuse government inquiries for logs because they don't have them. They can't hand over what they don't have. For some people this is a matter of life and death, such as jounralists in unstable regions.
Dns leakage is a bigger problem normal users need to learn about.
If you are unsure if you need a VPN then the answer is most likely: no, you do not need a VPN. These companies have marketed their service so hard over the years that normal people have started actually believing that they need it. It's so dumb, for most people it will only have disadvantages.
Still waiting for you to tell us exactly where you are
Thank you for turning down those VPN sponsorships. They must have flooded your emails.
As a long term degenerate of 4chan, all you need is a good enough proxy and you’re in
Him: "Do you need to use a vpn?"
Texans: "Yes, yes we do."
Only then, now your VPN knows where you are. You really only change who has access to the data.
Also, even most cable networks only give out your location within "nearest largest city". Mine shows being located in Vienna, which is over 150km away from me.
Can you tell us a bit more about Apple’s Private Relay and whether it does function like a VPN or not really ?
No it doesn't! Not at all! Be careful!
No it doesn't! Not at all! No no no....
Had about this recently in a course: you are hidden from the isp but the vpn you use will be able to see everything
So it should depend on who you trust more
Besides where I am from the isp is not allowed to do anything with your data
- but of course it might be useful if you visit certain places or countries
You never need a vpn unless it is to circumvent geo restrictions (which aren’t nearly as common as youtube sponsorships claim they are). And if you use a vpn it should be something you have control over (openvpn running on a vps for instance).
Plus, geo-restrictions get better and better, through DNS leaks and such. So now most VPNs can't even get around a simple Netflix geo-restriction, even when they still are advertised for that.
i wouldnt say that at all. a vpn is very useful if you find yourself using school wifi, airport wifi, hotel wifi, etc.
VPN’s are also useful because it lets you blend in with a crowd of users who are also using that server.
Having a VPN on a VPS is almost always less secure. Youre now just trusting the data center in which youre hosting your VPN, instead of a reputable VPN company like Mullvad.
Also, since no one else is connecting to that VPS server but you, you’ll be way easier to identify.
tldr: VPNs are great if you use public wifi often or want to obfuscate who you are (note i didn’t say anonymize). And hosting a VPN through a VPS is only useful in select scenarios.
while i'm no expert in the field, my basic understanding is that IP addresses for the most part are geolocated to the city your in at best, but if google wants to know your location, they don't need an IP address if your using a phone, they got Google Maps and GPS Satellites which are 10 times more accurate than your IP Address generally.
Nice info, thanks :) Mostly it will, depends on ISP.
When I was roaming in Canada, my external IP still showed me as being in the US, and not even my home state.
Google likely knows your true location from other factors, though.
Enough of the data frame is preserved that the server you’re connecting to knows who you are
Can you make a video on , what is tor? & What everyone should know about it ?
If not a long video atleast a short peeeezeeee👀
It depends upon isp, my previous isp used to show location 60km away from me, current one shows location 150km away and my friend who has static ip, actually has location that is more than 400km.
If that's not where you are, how were you masking your location on both providers? I'm a little confused
using a VPN
@@onemangamer587 no, either
a) his ISP (EE) is routing traffic through the centre of London
b) the IP (or IP range) was, at one point, used by someone at the centre of London, hence the IP detection attempt resolves there. These are just best effort attempts by companies.
@@tercmd nah, VPN
@@onemangamer587 he specifically said he wasn't using a VPN
@@onemangamer587Confidently incorrect. Did you even watch the video?
My ISP has a head office in Copenhagen. Their network is Fibre based and fast. So my location shows up as Copenhagen. Over an hours travel from my actual location, at highway speeds.
I know how their network is setup and my IP address for local is assigned internally and from the outside.. I use a collective shared IP. So I can not host network based services like a website... Unless I pay for a static IP. So I am partially protected by my ISP's policy on IP assignment and charging for external connections. Yes, no locally hosted services available to the WAN.. but Protected from the WAN as well.
Yeah guys I'm totally trusting the VPN company that offers their service for 1$ a month and spends billions on ads more with my data than my ISP. Totally.
Cellphones have a GPS.
Perhaps it isn't a IP address indicating the physical location.
In Android, one must go into Developer mode to override with a false GPS location.
Please note, that even if you use VPN, you can still BE TRACKED, and most if not all operating VPN services have agreements with governments to share data upon requests.
express vpn.
@@BLKMMEDIA All mainstream VPN companies share your data with multiple US/Other GOV organisations, or they have agreements to share data upon requests.
The VPN companies are just like any other business entity. They follow government regulations and cooperate with them.
Try qube os
In this case you should do something called proxy chairing, still it is not impossible to track you but very hard
Your demonstrations are legendary
A fiber connection still dont show the exact location. Its up to the ISP to register the IP on an area. It can't pinpoint you, but its fairly close usually to the same city or town. However with WiFi scanning it is possible to pinpoint someone exactly
Hi David, big fan from India 🇮🇳
I work for EE haha!
Does it matter if you're using an app that uses your GPS location? Does it matter if you use a browser that doesn't flush your cookies all the time?
Not to mention the possible DNS leaks if you haven't hardcoded the setup yourself... your ISP will know exactly what VPN you're using, and in many cases what domain names you look up, because your computer receives the necessary setup, to reach your VPN in the first place.
VPN is overrated if used by common people that just wants stuff to work.
Absolutely agree. For most non-business use-cases, a VPN is really just a way to add one encryption layer to the network traffic departing and arriving to your device. Which is only really useful for when you're on an unprotected network (like public wifi) and using a website/app that doesn't use an encrypted protocol... so basically almost never for most people nowadays.
@@matthieurochette public wifi without separation somewhat makes sense, because your DNS requests will most often not be encrypted. But most browsers default to HTTPS today, and panics if that's not available.
The service provider at the other end of the connection will know plenty about you unless you really know to hide your cookies at all times... and common people don't know.
from potential attackers, not from law enforcement tho lol
While successful connectivity to VPN client on phones, it changes/ hide its real public IP to VPN geolocation . So, it means our end devices connected to vpn virtual like overlay network. No split tunnels there to access intenal network but your traffic were still observable on VPN server end.
I hope so.
depends if your in a public space and not on your home network probably best to use a vpn, that being said if your on your home network and you want to hide connections to less than legal websites or access restricted website that were blocked by the isp then vpn is your guy, if your just going on Facebook or RUclips probably not
Note that the government can request your personal information from your Internet Service Provider, and the ISP will almost always comply and give them not only your location, but also your name and other identifiable information they can use against you in a court of law.
Your VPN providers may do the same. Only VPN's that contractually agree not to log any records of VPN connections are safe to use.
You need to use a VPN and secure DNS (to prevent DNS Leak)...
I hate it when my DNS leaks, corroding the terminals.
I don't understand how companies can tell you're using a VPN. One of the selling platforms I use bans people for using a VPN. How do they know?
Vpn companies have servers in several countries, each server has an ip when you connect to vpn you browse the website through thier server's ip, websites can simply make a list and put inside it the ip of every server of that vpn service
@@ferasm96 Thanks! That makes complete sense!
@@doglifehub Also, when internet traffic is routed through a VPN, specific ports are often used and the headers of packets change.
This makes it even easier to block VPN connections to websites.
If I’m not on WiFi everything online thinks I’m in Chicago, I am most definitely not, considering I’m about 470 miles away. I love that everything cellular routes through Chicago from where I am.
Criminal's best friend is a vpn.
Lies! Your home Internet is NOT correctly geolocated in the UK. Your IP address is more likely to show the location of whichever exchange houses the DHCP server responds to your handshake, which won't be your local cabinet. Or it will show the address of the ISP's corporate office because their IPs will more likely be registered to that address.
I'm still amazed by the number of people who think using a VPN will give them better latency while playing video games.
no. if you want to hide your location you use a proxy not a VPN. your requests leak your location which a VPN only routes but not hides.
False, you do not need a whole VPN, but just a proxy. In the case the ISP doesn't already obfuscate (for security purposes or because of technical limitations) your position, of course.
no difference. You only use one proxy from the vpn. Vpns just a collection of proxys from which you choose 1 theyre not chained.
A lot of people think that VPNs are the end all be all of online privacy, but they are so wrong 😂😂.
Yeah but it drains one’s battery like 3 times faster due to keepalive packets
You don't have 5g even in London? 😂😂😂😂
it doesn't matter what connection i use, it will always guess the country right but that's it. It usually guesses between 50 and 900 km wrong
Can you not scare people... it doesnt give your location, it gives the area of the "node" you'd be connected to. usually within a "few miles". unless you're the only person in that radius, its impossible to get an address from an IP alone. unless you're the ISP.
So the guy ask a question , gives a response that have a question in it and call it a day . Nice
That's not true. It's a matter of the location site. IPs don't have "locations". These sites guess where it's located based on data they bought. While countries are mostly correct, any further information is likely false.
It has to do with the fact the mobile providers give users shared ip
I live in North Korea so unfortunately I have to use VPN to breathe some fresh air from the globe
The wired network would be the same, because that's where your isp is.
Exact address can we find by ip?
Or only location can be tracked ?..
If VPN they are using hiw to find exact location /address
It's what a proxy is for, not a VPN, please internet, stop this mistake...
Sounds like VPN is hiding my location only from me.
I use cellular network as my main Internet and it shows my location in another entire city, so it's quite nice.
But what about your ipv6 ?
Did you think about it ?
Still Google maps will know where you are
Other than to stream geo-restricted content, I honestly don't see an advantage for a normal user or of an exploit that depends on your general location.
If you don't want your ISP to know what you are doing, oh well, now it's another group of people who know what you doing (vpn provider), what makes you trust this other group more than the ISP...
I use two vpn one in tor browser and other normal vpn and even change the dns to private 🗿
What a waste of time.
depends on precission. of gps is open a you give browser location access or close access rights browser scripts can detect your location precisely... also there is ways to detect if cocies are open from the sites you wisited ad clicked if this sites has iformation thats needed indrectly ;P like your lical banks site or library ;)
For every question "it depends"
Oh someone was trying to sell me fiber lol good to know I can’t hide my sh*t
And yet i can tell you are south african, no VPN can hide that accent
If your provider use CGNAT a fiber is still not gonna be pinpoint accurate, pretty close tho
A lot of things on the Internet think I'm in texas
Is this geo data provided by ISP? Or is it something entirely else?
Best Cyber security ever, Is to not have Internet 😁😁😁😁 But we need it kinda a double edge sword.
The best way to scramble is pairing The VPN with tor, basically the VPN scramble your location, while tor scramble the pc acess
Do you have any tips on improving my Starlinks performance? The connection seems to be spotty at times
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Your fiber connection would show “where you are…” I mean 🤦♂️ do you honestly think you’ve cleared anything up here? You start with rfc1918 and end on the public side with the absolute minimum amount of information.
Your public ip doesn’t typically (almost never) can be correlated to your actual address. It’s almost always a very general location, with the generality varying from region, state, county, or even country scopes. In the rare cases when your address is exposed, it’s usually because the service is registered to a business and there are local laws mandating such.
A vpn to hide location is only really useful for a handful of specific scenarios.
It won't show exactly where you are, it would show roughly the city. Mine shows the centre of Sunderland city, which is wrong.
Does starlink have some sort of integrated VPN service? why would it show your location to be in london otherwise?
No, it will not show your actual location… IPs just show the city you are located at, or neighborhood at worse
You didn't answer the goddamn question you asked yourself
Guide me sir want to be a cybersecurity expert how I can be.. What courses to take and certification requirements.. Plz
Security+ course.
Really it depends on where your gateway router is.
True ❤vpn can hide this
Phone apps could access the GPS of the phone rather than the ipaddress
Why would the fiber optic really show? I mean it would show the city at best, but yeah if you wanna hide that a vpn could be useful.
Can you advise if I can hide my location with VPN when using Citrix to connect to my office network? My office does not allow foreign remote working and I want to hide my location if I am abroad.
I remember looking at my IP on my phone or my laptop connected to my hotspot. And it thought I was in California, but at that time I was in Washington.
you can hide your IP with VPN but your not going to hide your GPS coordinates. You need a GPS spoofer for that
can i ask something ? is the vpn provider as NordVPN or other Vpn provider keep your public ip address in memory ? somewhere in their logs or somewhere in their infrastructure ?
I knew, i noticed it that cellular doesnt give you your exact location
No really, I have fiber optic and my location is 300km in a different city. This is provider-specific. I live in Prague 5 and my ip shows my location in Ostrava city. (Both Czech Republic) My optic fiber provider is from Ostrava city and my optic cable goes all the way to my room, 2 feet from my PC and the the router is connected via ethernet cable to my PC.
my 4g literally always shows london no matter where i am
Only use I have of a vpn is if I want to pretend to be in another country or if I don't trust the WiFi I'm connecting to as both my phone and home network is run by ISPs that route traffic through their internal network in such away that my public IPs location will always be one of their server halls and none of them are close to my actual location
Repeat after me: THERE IS NO CORRELATION BETWEEN PHYSICAL ADDRRSSES / GPS COORDINATES AND INTERNET IP ADDRESSES.
He didn’t answer the question, super annoying
I like all your content
It can usually tell down to the neighborhood I'm in, so yeah
We should not be hiding as if we are some criminals. If there are any harms to us over internet, then we must fix those problems rather than hiding.
The comments on this video are hilarious.