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    Is it safe to block your country and a few more, I mean did it ever happened to any of you to be seen by someone from the location you blocked??
    Can I relax or I should be worried about my family and close people finding out (I cant tell them yet, I'm barely starting) and I dont want some near surrounding idiots obsessing over me!

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    Default Re: Geo-restrictions !!!

    Some people use fake DNSs to access sites blocked from their country. I know LOTS of people in China do that so they can circumvent the Great China Firewall.

    They can use the same resource to access porn sites - and cam sites, too. There's a possibility, but how big is it?

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    Default Re: Geo-restrictions !!!

    They can get through geo-block, but the site you are working on is just one problem.

    Guys (or the site itself or its affilates) record you, and post you on free porn tube sites. Those have no geo restricitons or anything at all. There are hundreds of them, and by the time you find yourself (if you find yourself at all) probably thousands saw you already and/or downloaded you.

    Even if some of these sites actually take the videos down if you request it, most of the time the uploaders won't post your cam name, just something like "blonde bitch riding huge dildo" so good luck finding yourself among the thousands of "blonde bitches riding dildos"...

    My mum, my most important cousin, my partner, some of my friends know it, so I'm not worried of "being found out", I don't really care, but once I was visiting a free pornsite, and I recognized my own bedding under a pair of wide open legs in a preview.

    My heart sank. It was not me then, so fuck IKEA whith the same beddings all over the world. But it was the first time when I really thought it was me and I think the very first experience is the most horrible. When you have to face that it IS happening. I felt like I was struck by lightning.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sunkissedd View Post
    Is it safe to block your country and a few more, I mean did it ever happened to any of you to be seen by someone from the location you blocked??
    Can I relax or I should be worried about my family and close people finding out (I cant tell them yet, I'm barely starting) and I dont want some near surrounding idiots obsessing over me!
    YEP!!!! I blocked a state, confirmed it was blocked. However, a white label SM site was still broadcasting me. I was found by someone in the state that I blocked. How do I know this for a fact?

    After the block was put on and confirmed, a video was sent from the state that was blocked, time stamped, after the block was on and sent to my bf.
    I took the restriction off, I am still going to be found so reason to lose more traffic. I do not think SM will broadcast you and the other sites are not supposed to, but no one seems to polices it.
    Idk about a country, maybe it is a better situation and a stronger block.
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    I have blocked my own country, because I don't expect customers from here anyway. I know they can still see me if they use VPN I think, but it doesn't bother me, because I don't think there's much chance someone I know to use a VPN, to go on the site where I'm working at the same time I'm online and see me. That's really too much coincidence, I don't think it's possible. But as Glasses said, I think the free porn sites are much worse.

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    The reason blocking isnt perfect is this:

    No site can guarantee 100% reliable geo-blocking. This isnt because the site is fallible or doesnt know what it is doing, it is just how internet broadcasting and affiliate marketing works. For most sites, I'd say they do a great job at being effective at blocking ranges of real IP addresses, which is all that it does. People who view online porn are the general public, the general public are very basic about their computer browsing (for ex, majority of internet surfers use internet explorer only and dont know different OS than Microsoft) so geo-blocking captures 'typical' users. I cant give a percentage but I'd guess idk 75-90%**

    However:

    a. mobile users (this includes mobile computers like iPads and other tablets) arent blocked by region. a growing percentage of online porn viewers are on mobile devices.
    b. a lot of megasite traffic comes from affiliate advertisers and white labels. most geo-restrictions remove you from major ad campaigns, but some site's white labels dont guarantee blocking. affiliates can do whatever they want with your profile pics, so they can make a blog to redirect traffic with your image - you can request they take it down but that doesnt mean your pic wont be live on a part of the internet where geo-restrictions dont exist.
    c. if a user is using a proxy that scrambles their IP address they can surpass regional blocking.
    d. if your video feed is pirated (freechat included, there are a bunch of camgirl's freechats on youtube) or screenshots are taken and disseminated, regional blocking is irrelevant.
    e. if you use social media promotional sites like twitter or mypornprofile, you have no regional blocking protection.
    f. the person is traveling to another area not blocked and is on a porn site


    **It also depends on the site: some sites when they block certain regions, your profile doesnt seem to exist if youre in that blocked region (you cant search for it, find it on white labels, go directly to the profile, etc). Some sites you can see the profile but you cant enter the room. Some sites you can see the profile, pictures, and can enter textchat but are barred from entering free/paid chat. Some sites you can still go to a model's profile page and room if the know your stage name and enter via a white label.

    IDK how it works on LiveJasmin or Flir4Free well enough to tell you how it works but my strong suggestion if youd like to reduce your risk by doing member chat only and not freechat. This will reduce your traffic and payout percentage and isnt a guarantee though. If youre absolutely terrified of the prospect of being recognized by anyone ever ever ever? Dont cam.

    I have been recognized before. More than once. More than twice. More than three times. Probably more than that but not everyone wants to tell me.

    Bear in mind that over your lifespan up to now: you probably know hundreds if not thousands of people. Those people each probably know thousands and thousands more. The vast majority of them have watched online porn at least once, probably a sizeable number use tube sites at least once every few months (where a lot of camsite ads happen... a handful of tube sites are in the top 75 visited sites in the world), probably a chunk pay for porn. So you can block 'hot' states or even countries but you probably know someone in a few areas of the country and/or world who you forgot about who could recognize you. Again, if youd like to reduce your risk: use geo-restrictions and minimize use of freechat if you can... just know you wont get as much traffic as girls who dont block and are always in freechat. If the idea of being recognized is absolutely life-destroying: dont cam. No site can guarantee 100% effectiveness.
    ^From the 'Avoid Studios' sticky.

    I wanted to stress that some ppl seem to believe that you can only circumvent geo-restrictions is by intentionally using proxies, Id say most of time people circumvent geo-restrictions unintentionally, the vast majority of computer users arent that sophisticated. Proxies arent 'sophisticated' but most regular internet users still... use Internet Explorer and have idk Weather Bug installed, so dont just rely on more advanced knowledge of use of the internet.

    Im on a bunch of sites that dont have geo-restrictions as an option, but the ones Im on where I use georestrictions: yes I have been. Both by people I know who told me and by customers announcing where they live. Ive also had pirated videos on tube sites of me on sites where I actually use geo-restrictions, which nullified my use of geo-restrictions on the original site. Like Glasses, it was (and is) startling to discover.

    Geo-restrictions are at best a harm reduction method for reducing mass dissemination of your profile, which reduces likelihood of discover but it doesnt eliminate it. Certain sites are so heavily pirated (MFC, chaturbate, cam4) or have so many white labels and advertisements on so many sites and even on television (SM and LJ) that itd be best to just anticipate discovery even if using geo-restrictions.

    Hope that helps.





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    Quote Originally Posted by sunkissedd View Post
    Is it safe to block your country and a few more, I mean did it ever happened to any of you to be seen by someone from the location you blocked??
    Can I relax or I should be worried about my family and close people finding out (I cant tell them yet, I'm barely starting) and I dont want some near surrounding idiots obsessing over me!
    Hmmm, honestly you could still be found out..maybe your risk goes down, but it can still happen.
    Do they know ur screen name? (camming name) ? If they know that at all or anyone tells them that regardless of geoblock they can find you/veiw your cam when live.

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    Duh Re: Geo-restrictions !!!

    it seems like i'll have to try with hair and make up transformation... i dont like the idea of wearing a wig much (if it's not good quality it will destroy my hair wearing it long hrs i guess), but a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do, right?
    wondering if make up can really make me look like im not myself lol
    im not that worried about my family, since my mom already knows and friends with false moral lessons and such dont interest me neither. BUT the man i love more than anything in this world is not ready to know yet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sunkissedd View Post
    did it ever happened to any of you to be seen by someone from the location you blocked??
    Yes. No only someone I know (who asked me if I was from my area because he knew who I was), but several guys with the city I lived in in their screen name. And many who said they were from my area. Geoblock does not always work, so I took mine off for good.

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    Default Re: Geo-restrictions !!!

    It hasn't happened yet nor anyone would have the nerve to come up to me and ask me about it. Geo blocking doesn't always work. If you're on SM, I would take it off.
    Quote Originally Posted by sunkissedd View Post
    Is it safe to block your country and a few more, I mean did it ever happened to any of you to be seen by someone from the location you blocked??
    Can I relax or I should be worried about my family and close people finding out (I cant tell them yet, I'm barely starting) and I dont want some near surrounding idiots obsessing over me!

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    Someone who had previously bought a gold show asked about a block session that asked if I was "enter my real name here"! I freaked and blocked him and chose to leave geo block off for good at that point. I have no idea who this was and was weirded out that they knew me and saw my show. I did unblock him a week later hoping he would come back and tell me who he is. He came back to my room for a few minutes but didn't say anything. I've accepted it and the fact that I will be/have been caught.

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    Can't see to edit from my phone.

    *block session then asked if I was*

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    Default Re: Geo-restrictions !!!

    Geo restrictions does work, however with in limits. lets say you blocked LA, I live in LA but my internet provider is based in Germany, geo block doesn't affect me unless you blocked Germany aswell. if I go vacation to a place you don't have blocked I would be able to see you or I'm using a proxy server but these are things that you would already know about close people or could find out so you can adjust based on that. Near surrounding idiots will obsess over you because you said hi 5 years ago to that girl they was standing next too.
    But style your makeup different, were a different color wig and talk with a British accent, just make I harder for them to realize it you.
    And another thing will really help, ladies stop giving out so much info about yourself. I'm always shocked but what I hear sometimes. These mother fuckers do not need to know your school, your major, your future goals, your fav places to eat, shop or where you live or where your from, Ive seen a lot of girls give down to the town( I saw one give her address, she was ordering food) and if you don't say it your amazon gift list does. Be smart this is fantasy and fantasy does not require the truth about yourself or tractable information.

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