Only trust my frens, here. I thought using a VPN would mask one's actual location and ip address. But there are some sights that recognize my account with them whether or not I am using a vpn. Can someone explain? Thanks.
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A VPN changing your traffic isn’t all that could be going on. If you use a device from home, then you take your device to work, that’s the same as using a work VPN. If you’re still using the same applications or web browser, things will behave the same from work.
If you’re referring to websites, sites store information locally in cookies and other forms of storage. Simply using a vpn doesn’t eliminate local storage and cookies.
There are other forms of tracking that are much more technical that I cannot explain here like browser fingerprinting and leaks via webrtc.
No, I don't take it back and forth - so it's not that. And I thought by using Brave that it wasn't saving cookies, but maybe that's the problem. Thanks for the comments.