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throwaway2016a on Feb 1, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: New porn laws will mean Pornhub asks for your name...

I could be wrong but I think what you are describing is technically "masking"

To me "spoofing" implies packet shaping.

I tried to find a good definitive difference between the two and couldn't find one. So as I said, could definitely be wrong.

eudoxus on Feb 1, 2018 [–]

I think its pretty fair to assume to comment was referring to the process of tricking a website into thinking you are at a different IP address then what is actually assigned by your ISP... :/

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