Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not.

cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Remember that meme for windscribe VPN where they supposedly had a server located on Epstein Island because the feds can’t see anything that happens there?

  Whatever happened to that? I know it was a joke but they already have the Antarctica server so why not run with this too?

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• mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  At least on Apple, that wouldn’t help; Native apps (like the App Store) have direct GPS and cellular location access. You’d need to spoof your GPS and cellular location, which is a lot harder than simply connecting to a different VPN server.

  Lots of people found that out when they deleted TikTok during the “ban”. TikTok continued to function in the US, but it was removed from the App Store so you couldn’t re-download it after deleting it. And simply changing your VPN to an international server didn’t help, because the App Store was loading available apps based on your cell location.

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  • Toribor@corndog.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At least on Android, spoofing GPS location is trivial (not that workarounds like this should be necessary).

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• Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wonder how much a company could make providing a low-cost VPN whose sole purpose is to to make US residents appear to be from California XD

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