baronvonj

you originally said

they cannot tell who’s using a VPN

I was replying to that specific statement only. Lists of IP ranges are updated regularly and publicly available. Web sites hosted in Utah will have to make use of them to ID check visitors to comply.

I agree with you that web sites hosted outside of Utah should just block Utah IP addresses with a “contact your representative” message."

wouldn’t reveal to a website where the traffic is coming from

that’s… exactly the point here. If you’re connecting thru a VPN then the web site is supposed to ID you because you might be circumventing their local ID laws.

It’s actually quite trivial to detect most VPN providers. There’s publicly available IP lists

https://ipinfo.io/tools/vpn-providers-detected

Yeah indexes of VPN provider IP ranges (and VPS providers and such) already exist. If you want to get around that you need to find a residential ISP SOCKS proxy provider.

@grok is this true?