I’ve turned off location tracking on Facebook; I’ve never checked into any place in the country where I’m now living; and I’ve even gone as far as putting down a city in the country where my VPN servers are as my current location in my profile. Facebook had been showing me ads intended for people living in that fake current location in my profile until 2 to 3 days ago, when it suddenly found out my real location and started showing me ads intended for people at my real location.
I’ve come across the same issue a few months ago. Back then, I resolved this issue by turning off IPv6. I’ve kept IPv6 off since then, but this issue suddenly re‑appeared. I wonder what I need to do to trick Facebook into thinking I’m at the location where my VPN servers are again?
A number of factors can occur here. cookies/metadata, system time, possibly your IP/DNS leaked run a leak test.
My suggestion is to clear your cookies switch to another server (suggest a different country) and try again. >!Could also block ads, i suggest Malwarebytes web extension (Chrome Version)!<
!Edit: Use FireFox or Brave browser instead of edge, chrome, safari !<
!Edit 2: if you value privacy suggest avoiding Facebook as a whole !<
You are running ? X OS ?, keep in mind that using at least iOS any most recent iPhone that having find my iPhone on can be leveraged in a way to provide your real location. Assuming Linux based devices have something similar it’s not hard to imagine how this can be done. If not then an occasional startup on winderz linux or mac type systems can reveal your IP before security or vpn precautions are actually turned on… you need to be aware of this !
A VPN only hides the location of your ISP and local server, by inserting their server between you and the site. A VPN does nothing about Geolocation, and it is Geolocation that is giving up your real location. Try IPLEAK.NET, make sure you have no DNS leaks, no web RTC leaks, and that your Geolocation isn’t showing where you really are.
Many streaming media sites demand you share your geolocation. If you don’t, or it is outside their geo-fence, you are not getting any programming. You can browse the site, but if you press play, nothing good will happen.
Depends upon the site you are trying to reach, but streaming media are VERY aggressive at hard blocking known VPN servers.
Keep in mind your VPN isn’t the only client using the server you are using. Spammers are using the same server your VPN uses (the VPN doesn’t own the servers, they just lease bandwidth on them).
Since most good VPNs don’t keep logs, it is impossible for them to know if any of their clients are e-mailing 1,000 or 10,000 spam messages in a batch.
Lately, sites protected by Cloudflare are simply blocking your access to anything.
Google search is making you answer captcha after captcha to do a simple search. Find all the fire hydrants. Now find all the crosswalks. Now find all the steps.
Here’s one such blocking message from a site protected by Cloudflare. The internet is a battlefield and there is a war underway.
*** Forbidden. Your IP belongs to a high spam risk network. Please, try again without VPN. ***
Hard to tell. They come up with new ways to violate the privacy of their users all the time. If you are using the mobile app, there is likely no way to avoid it for long. I gave up and deactivated my account and deleted all FB owned apps (and Google too). I’ve yet to regret that decision.
disabling an app in Android is kinda same as uninstalling it. it is 100% deactivated. only disadvantage it still takes like 100mb or so on the storage but who cares about that.
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