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Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility

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  1. mahboi · · focus · HN ↗
    How is this impossible? DraftKings does it for California visitors.
    1. abirch · · focus · HN ↗
      they want to stop VPN traffic. If it's a plain IP address it's easy. VPN makes it hard.
      1. mahboi · · focus · HN ↗
        I understand. You can't use DraftKings via a VPN.
        1. abirch · · focus · HN ↗
          What stops me from using DraftKings.com from a VPN? I'm at the page right now, but I don't have an account. Will they verify that my IP and home address match or something?
          1. mahboi · · focus · HN ↗
            They have an extensive blacklist of VPNs, and on top of that will require you to verify location on a phone if you don't have an obvious residential IP. Or maybe they just always do that? Of course if you have a sketchy proxy and a phone where you can spoof location and you can ensure they don't flag it as something "unverified" like GrapheneOS, you can get around it, and you'd be in a small minority.

            Unfortunately know this because a gambler friend showed me.

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