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I live in the EU, but use a self-hosted VPN (for privacy reasons) on a German IP (digitalocean). And I too get the annoying reCaltcha prompts or even bans “your
by jitbit 7y ago
I live in the EU, but use a self-hosted VPN (for privacy reasons) on a German IP (digitalocean). And I too get the annoying reCaltcha prompts or even bans “your IP range has been blocked” all the time.
PS. To be fair it’s not just coming from Cloudflare-protected sites. Webmasters and SaaS-app devs add this to their WAF layers everywhere. :(
- tgsovlerkhgsel 7y agoIt's probably less about the German IP and more about DigitalOcean. Most people live in homes, not datacenters, which means that web sites expect human traffic to come from residential IPs, not datacenter IPs. What comes from the datacenter IPs is an endless stream of costly abuse, so they get CAPTCHA'd (if they want to support use cases like yours) or blocked (if they don't care about those)