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i can't speak to the safety, but i think you'll find browsing with an AWS IP to be a frustrating experience. Many sites block traffic from known AWS IP ranges
by notatoad 7y ago
i can't speak to the safety, but i think you'll find browsing with an AWS IP to be a frustrating experience. Many sites block traffic from known AWS IP ranges in an attempt to prevent scraping or abuse.
- scurvy 7y agoYep plus 1000 to this. I tried doing this 4 years ago and it was a miserable experience. And rightly so to be honest. For every privacy focused nerd, there are 1000 lowlife hackers and spammers trying to use something as a bounce proxy.
- cf498 7y agoAny experience with using classical VPS as a proxy? Same problem?
- scurvy 7y agoThat's what I started out with. Pretty useless. Blocking the entire ASN is pretty easy and most won't care what is what.
- jstarfish 7y agoFWIW, most modern VPN providers spread their infrastructure around to evade ASN bans so there is some value added in paying a service to manage that for you.
- eknkc 7y agoUse Google Cloud VMs. Nobody blocks Google IPs (they might even lift paywalls etc)
- manigandham 7y agoGoogle's services do not share IPs with their cloud platform. All 3 major cloud ip ranges are easy to block.
- GordonS 7y agoI use an Azure VM as a proxy, and don't see many issues. Every now and then Google asks me to do a captcha, and there are literally a handful of sites that do the same.