Remember how I said a VPN was like a tunnel and your traffic comes out the other side? Well that other side’s IP Address is what appears on the servers for anywhere you visit. The VPN provider will have a block of IP Addresses and yours will be the 1st available one from the stack.
What happens if a lot of the other people on that VPN are abusing websites you are trying to visit in a completely legit fashion? Well some websites like Google might realize that they are getting a lot of SPAM’d search queries from the block of IP Addresses and might enforce a CAPTCHA for any searches to slow that block down a bit.
As Hairy_Mouse said, some websites might even go as far as restrict all traffic from known VPN IP blocks.
Remember how I said a VPN was like a tunnel and your traffic comes out the other side? Well that other side’s IP Address is what appears on the servers for anywhere you visit. The VPN provider will have a block of IP Addresses and yours will be the 1st available one from the stack.
What happens if a lot of the other people on that VPN are abusing websites you are trying to visit in a completely legit fashion? Well some websites like Google might realize that they are getting a lot of SPAM’d search queries from the block of IP Addresses and might enforce a CAPTCHA for any searches to slow that block down a bit.
As Hairy_Mouse said, some websites might even go as far as restrict all traffic from known VPN IP blocks.
Good to know. Thanks for info.