Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck?
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoIncorrect. They can test against the recieving computer and any other relays they control on the way there. They can use that along with other information like number of packets, size of packets, and response time to determine, not with any certainty but with probability, where it comes from.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Do you not think a VPN will affect response time?? I implore you re-read the paper you keep referring to because they spell it out pretty basically what they are doing - and finding a person’s actual physical location behind a VPN is not it.
I am not claiming a VPN is a perfect or complete solution… The modern web has an absolute ton of ways to track you even through a VPN, but CPV isn’t it.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
VPN will effect response time and that effect on response time is easily measurable.