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If you used tor then your IP came out of a Tor exit node, which is almost certainly associated with someone else's concurrent bad/spammy behavior. How could the
by damienkatz 11y ago
If you used tor then your IP came out of a Tor exit node, which is almost certainly associated with someone else's concurrent bad/spammy behavior. How could they know your aren't the bad guy?
- netheril96 11y agoI wonder why IP based blocking is still a thing (e.g. Wikipedia). With the IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 non-adoption, many people who are not associated at all share a single public IPv4 address. How could a blocking policy based on IP ever going to have lower enough false positive rate?
- Pharaoh2 11y agoPermanent IP blocks rarely target particular person and rather target IP ranges to ban whole regions, people cannot easily spoof their IP range, unless they use a VPN (or similar service) which in most cases is a high enough barrier that if it can be crossed, most other barriers can be crossed too. Temporary IP blocks just work to block that person for that session (in sense of time) in cases where login is not required or can easily be created (like wikipedia). In most cases the people are incapable (through willingness or technical restriction) of changing their IP address and they move on. Short term IP blocks work wonderfully for this. At least for services like wikipedia which do not require registration for making changes, (which is a great usp), temp IP bans are the best and possibly only solution except for browser fingerprinting. Other services that require an account creation, like twitter can easily block users and require something like a phone number for known problematic IPs. As can be seen here. - There might be a bigger uproar if they started doing this than twitter asking for a phone number if you are on a blacklisted IP.
- wavefunction 11y agoThere are perfectly legitimate reasons to ip block. I block connections from most of the world to my various network resource admin points because only I am going to be connecting to them and I'm not going to be connecting from China or Nigeria or Romania. And if I am, I unblock them temporarily.
- netheril96 11y agoI was thinking about websites meant to be accessed by the public.
- pjc50 11y agoThe site operator generally cares a lot less about the false positive rate than the amount of work created by not IP blocking persistent nuisances.
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- rev_bird 11y agoI agree, but that's why it makes no sense for them to encourage users to use Tor and then block based on IP.