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<blockquote data-quote="Arequire" data-source="post: 796042" data-attributes="member: 59283"><p>Keep in mind is that Whoer assumes you're browsing the site while connected to a VPN server regardless of whether you are or not. From there it looks for inconsistencies relating to your IP address's country of origin.</p><p>For example, if you live in the United Kingdom and connect to a VPN server located in Switzerland without changing your browser's language or your system's time zone, any host you connect to can include javascript that allows it to see your system's time zone and use your HTTP header to see the language your browser's set to display pages in. With those two pieces of information they can determine that you probably aren't a Swiss citizen browsing the internet from Switzerland but are in fact browsing the internet from the United Kingdom but are connected to a VPN server in Switzerland.</p><p>Both these things are easily remedied: All major browsers have an option to display pages in English without a country designation behind it.</p><p>The time zone is also easily remedied if somewhat annoying: Change your system's time zone to match your VPN's server location before connecting to the VPN and change it back after you've disconnected.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arequire, post: 796042, member: 59283"] Keep in mind is that Whoer assumes you're browsing the site while connected to a VPN server regardless of whether you are or not. From there it looks for inconsistencies relating to your IP address's country of origin. For example, if you live in the United Kingdom and connect to a VPN server located in Switzerland without changing your browser's language or your system's time zone, any host you connect to can include javascript that allows it to see your system's time zone and use your HTTP header to see the language your browser's set to display pages in. With those two pieces of information they can determine that you probably aren't a Swiss citizen browsing the internet from Switzerland but are in fact browsing the internet from the United Kingdom but are connected to a VPN server in Switzerland. Both these things are easily remedied: All major browsers have an option to display pages in English without a country designation behind it. The time zone is also easily remedied if somewhat annoying: Change your system's time zone to match your VPN's server location before connecting to the VPN and change it back after you've disconnected. [/QUOTE]
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