Re:X.com Is Gonna Snitch You Out to the Public If You Use a VPN
by ritcgab on Sunday November 23, 2025 @12:08PM
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There are tons of services like maxmind that can just tell you the origin of an IP - whether it is a datacenter one or a residential one.
Re:X.com Is Gonna Snitch You Out to the Public If You Use a VPN
by ACCount37 on Sunday November 23, 2025 @08:26AM
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Websites can still guess that an IP is non-residential. There's a difference between an IP at Comcast and an IP at DigitalOcean. This takes some effort to work around.
Re:X.com Is Gonna Snitch You Out to the Public If You Use a VPN
by jschoe on Sunday November 23, 2025 @08:30AM
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Self-hosting a VPN is not entirely straightforward. If you rent a server from Hetzner, for example, and your IP address is linked to Hetzner, it's obvious that it's not a genuine residential IP address.
What you need is a VPN that provides a genuine residential IP address. It's possible to do this, but not easy to set up for everyone.
Re:X.com Is Gonna Snitch You Out to the Public If You Use a VPN
by xrmagnum on Sunday November 23, 2025 @04:45PM
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Hosting your VPN is a fair bit of work. Plus, you need residential IP too which you don't really have if you host on any Cloud Provider. I had the same issue and decided to build TunnelBuddy.net so that a friend can share their internet connection with me or vice versa. It is entirely P2P and requires no sign up, no credit card. You download the app, share a code and that's it. It is like TeamViewer, but instead of sharing your screen you share your Internet Connection.
But if you use a fake name and fake email, which people should be using on twitter, who cares.
Also if you self host your VPN, how would twitter know. Looks like only people using a commercial VPN will be flagged.