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Originally Posted by kroncheez
How do you know when someone is using a vpn? Doesn't that defeat the whole purpose?
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No, the main purpose of vpn/proxy it's to hide where you are from i.e. who you are, and in fact detecting it is a vpn does not say who you are really. To have fake IP looking like a real IP, the reverse dns it should show an ISP, this is a little complicated to obtain and just bet carders do it.
You can detect proxy because the geotarget libs put vpn/tor on its own "countrycode". In fact in most advertising networks you can choice country OR "proxy". This is not perfect or updated. But you can check by hand the reverse DNS, if looks like server.com instead of isp.com you catch more. This is worth just for sales, but it is what the fraud/risk dept's of billers do, along with other tests I am not hereby disclosing.