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Should You Trust Your VPN Location?
In an analysis of 20 popular VPNs, IPinfo found that 17 of those VPNs exit traffic from different countries than they claim. That means the majority of VPN providers we analyzed don’t route your traffic via the countries they claim to, and they claim many more countries than they actually support.
10 hours ago by Ben Dowling — 11 min read
See You at Black Hat Europe: We’re Bringing New VPN Insights
6 days ago by Paul Heywood — 1 min read
Fraud-as-a-Service in the AI Age: Why Defenses Depend on Data Accuracy
12 days ago by Augustin Ladar — 6 min read
How VPNs Affect IVT: Understanding Risks in Digital Advertising
13 days ago by Meghan Prichard — 7 min read
Recent articles
- Residential Proxy Coverage Grows 250% Since Launch, Now Includes Datacenter IPs14 days ago by Fernanda Donnini — 3 min read
- Debunking the "99.8% Accurate IP Data" Claim19 days ago by Fernanda Donnini — 4 min read
- Trusted by Researchers: IPinfo Usage Surges at IMC 202521 days ago by Oliver Gasser — 4 min read
- What's New at IPinfo: Q3 2025 Product Highlights25 days ago by Meghan Prichard — 1 min read
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IP Data Fundamentals
Should You Trust Your VPN Location?
10 hours ago by Ben Dowling — 11 min read
How to Interpret IPinfo's VPN and Hosting Signals: A Classification Framework
a month ago by Daniel Quandt — 6 min read
Order Without Ownership: IP Address Allocation and Routing in a Decentralized Internet
3 months ago by Maxime Mouchet — 12 min read
IP Data Accuracy
Debunking the "99.8% Accurate IP Data" Claim
19 days ago by Fernanda Donnini — 4 min read
ProbeNet Q3 2025 Expansion: Accelerating Global Network Coverage
a month ago by Fernanda Donnini — 5 min read
Leading Martech's Data Evolution with IP Intelligence
2 months ago by Ross Lewis — 2 min read
Solving Business Challenges
Fraud-as-a-Service in the AI Age: Why Defenses Depend on Data Accuracy
12 days ago by Augustin Ladar — 6 min read
How VPNs Affect IVT: Understanding Risks in Digital Advertising
13 days ago by Meghan Prichard — 7 min read
IPv6 and CTV: The Measurement Challenge From the Fastest-Growing Ad Channel
a month ago by Fernanda Donnini — 8 min read
Getting Started
Speed Up Your Fraud Detection With the IPinfo Integration in Google Cloud Platform
2 months ago by Ross Lewis — 1 min read
How to Get IP geolocation in PHP: A Step-by-Step Guide
3 months ago by IPinfo Team — 8 min read
IP Data and Geolocation in C#: A How-To Guide
5 months ago by Abdullah — 8 min read
Optimizing and Scaling
Residential Proxy Coverage Grows 250% Since Launch, Now Includes Datacenter IPs
14 days ago by Fernanda Donnini — 3 min read
What's New at IPinfo: Q3 2025 Product Highlights
25 days ago by Meghan Prichard — 1 min read
Never Lose Track of an IP Address Again: Introducing Starred IPs and Lookup History
a month ago by Fernanda Donnini — 3 min read
Community and Thought Leadership
See You at Black Hat Europe: We’re Bringing New VPN Insights
6 days ago by Paul Heywood — 1 min read
Trusted by Researchers: IPinfo Usage Surges at IMC 2025
21 days ago by Oliver Gasser — 4 min read
Identifying Similarities in IPv4 and IPv6 Prefixes
a month ago by Oliver Gasser — 3 min read
Company News and Updates
IPinfo 2025 Retreat
2 months ago by Meghan Prichard — 2 min read
IPinfo Recognized in Snowflake’s Modern Marketing Data Stack Report for the Fourth Consecutive Year
2 months ago by Meghan Prichard — 2 min read
Day in the Life of an IPinfo Research Intern: Alagappan
3 months ago by IPinfo Team — 4 min read