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IP banning is not effective in an era of disposable VPNs and Tor. I mean you could try to keep up with Tor exit nodes and VPN gateways but pretty soon you'd be
by olefoo 7y ago
IP banning is not effective in an era of disposable VPNs and Tor.
I mean you could try to keep up with Tor exit nodes and VPN gateways but pretty soon you'd be banning all of Azerbaijan or something.
- carokann 7y agoYeah and regardless of their efficiency, there are people who use dynamic IP. (not by choice)
- SiempreViernes 7y agoIp banning for new accounts together with creation time exceptions seems pretty good thought: almost all existing users would be unaffected. Only costs you growth untill you find some extras to put into the account creation process.
- icebraining 7y agoWhich "extras", though?
- satanspastaroll 7y agoA lot of users also post from mobile devices, which is usually behind a carrier-nat, which tends to swap the address very, very often
- TeMPOraL 7y agoIP banning has lost a lot of its effectiveness when ISPs started putting people behind NATs and recycling their IPs (which was a long time ago), and further lost effectiveness with the advent of smartphones and mobile Internet connections.
- mattigames 7y agoYeah, I stand corrected