After multiple EU-based users complained about not being able to access Threads app through VPN, Meta confirmed it is blocking such efforts.
It would be interesting to see exactly how Meta is managing to block VPN users. Is it simply a matter of looking up instagram or facebook account related to email addresses used to sign up? Is it evaluating some sort of browser fingerprint? That’s assuming VPN users are doing so via desktop, if it’s an Android device for example is the OS itself providing information that’s not getting obfuscated by the VPN?
Probably by just looking at the IP address, either due to the IP addresses of the VPNs being public or by the fact that many users are accessing the service through a single IP address
I imagine they just have a blocklist of IP ranges owned by major VPN providers.
Are they afraid of legality and doing something so fishy that there’s no way it would fly in EU?
Or is it just that this day and age it’s expected that VPNs are blocked? Like with Netflix etc.
Facebook isn’t interested in complying to EU’s privacy laws at this point, so they’re blocking it off entirely
