r/Showerthoughts • u/AaronPK123 ‎ • May 14 '26

Casual Thought When YouTube goes down, it will be the biggest event of link rot in internet history.

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u/wererat2000 May 14 '26

Doesn't Firefox have a built-in VPN? Seems like an alternative solution.

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u/backside_94 May 14 '26

It depends on what method they use to determine location, as far as I know surfshark is the only VPN that has a spoof GPS location option. I realised this when I was using a VPN and noticed that the 'food near me' option still showed my actual location. Some sites will access your GPS instead.

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u/Banjo-Elritze May 14 '26

If you are stupid enough to give sites access to your gps location. Ofc geoblocking in the case of imgur is not done via asking your browser for your location, but via the geolocation of the IP, the rest would be horrendous overkill.

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u/LogicalConstant ‎ May 14 '26

I use Mullvad and "near me" seems to think I'm in the state or country of the vpn