There are known IP ranges for some VPN services. Plus even if they don’t have that, they can see that all your traffic is going to one IP address and can guess/assume it’s a VPN.
Like with phone carriers, ISPs can see the numbers (IPs) you are connecting to. If you use a VPN, you’re always connecting to the same IP, which is unusual from a regular user perspective and would tend to indicate VPN usage.
Sure, there are some specialized anonymity-focused VPN providers that only have a few IP addresses in order to have as many users behind each IP as possible, but that’s definitely not “most public ones”.
Here’s the IP addresses I got from my provider just by reconnecting the VPN three times without even changing my virtual location:
It’s weird how eagerly people speaking completely out of their asses tend to double down when called out. Even if that would have been true, your original claim still would not work at all.
How? Deep package inspection?
There are known IP ranges for some VPN services. Plus even if they don’t have that, they can see that all your traffic is going to one IP address and can guess/assume it’s a VPN.
Umm… What?
Like with phone carriers, ISPs can see the numbers (IPs) you are connecting to. If you use a VPN, you’re always connecting to the same IP, which is unusual from a regular user perspective and would tend to indicate VPN usage.
No, you’re not. A VPN provider can have hundreds of thousands of IP:s.
OK, but not unheard of. And even a dynamic IP might remain the same for months, if not years, depending on the operator.
No, it wouldn’t.
Congrats on technically understanding how a VPN can work while completely misunderstanding how most public ones work in practice!
You keep telling yourself that.
Sure, there are some specialized anonymity-focused VPN providers that only have a few IP addresses in order to have as many users behind each IP as possible, but that’s definitely not “most public ones”.
Here’s the IP addresses I got from my provider just by reconnecting the VPN three times without even changing my virtual location:
It’s weird how eagerly people speaking completely out of their asses tend to double down when called out. Even if that would have been true, your original claim still would not work at all.