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by robjan 1161 days ago
No, because at the same time x number of users have their apps phoning home with what appears to be the same IP
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How can you be sure that you are the only one in your country not connected to the same IP address provided by a VPN server?
Well if they have ISP flow logs, that'll be trickier because it will enable very granular inspection of the traffic and the timings of that traffic.

However if they are trying to cast a wide net and inquire Google and other service providers for it, that will lead to a lot of collusions and they won't be able to tell it is from country A because it is from the VPN.

Are you sure x is sufficiently large?