Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 6d
I'm just now getting into VPN usage and I'm surprised how not straight forward it is. So I paid NordVPN and downloaded these ovpn files and set my network manager to use these but to my surprise, IPv6 leaks my real location/country even if I disable IPv6 in the network manager for both the wired and the vpn connection? How can it be that easy to screw up VPN usage in 2025?
Will try it out. Nord did put me off when they needed me to verify my email address but I needed a very concrete detail - app availability in other countries - and didn't want to experiment too long. Why do so many in the Bitcoin space recommend Nord then? They also accept bitcoin and of course I can put in an ephemeral email but still, for $12 I did at least expect it to shield my Chile IP from Google.
So with Nord, my speed was 10Mbps up and 5 down. With Mullvad it's 30% slower. But now the IPv6 also resolves to the VPN location. What I actually want is to find out if https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitgo.mobile is gone only for Chileans or for everybody and either Google is good at recognizing me even behind a VPN and with an "private" browser window or it's really gone for the US, too, despite https://app.sensortower.com/overview/com.bitgo.mobile?country=US&tab=ratings claiming otherwise. I'm regularly freaking out over apps disappearing as I monitor thousands for WalletScrutiny and we list thousands as "removed" but ... how would I know for sure if Google tries everything to sabotage people from getting a complete picture?
Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 5d
I don't get why VPN providers all want me to run their software? Aren't they just "glorified relays" as nostr:npub17fnzd22p3xu5tg8sz343d38c5m8dxxe4npyyx0akxphc6mhvxessuw5ksh put it?
Thanks for checking. If it is gone indeed, there was much noise about nothing and I got Mullvad and Nord for nothing concrete. Anyway, I'm not planning to install this app for myself. I'm tracking this and thousands of other apps for https://walletscrutiny.com. We have scripts to detect delisting and that script triggered for that app and things looked inconsistent but the team member that reported it not gone, had it installed before, which is why google still shows it to him. Logged out, it's gone for him, too.
