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In other words, make your website unusable for people who have to connect through VPNs or public networks, difficult for anyone without a stable Western broadba
by troad 4y ago
In other words, make your website unusable for people who have to connect through VPNs or public networks, difficult for anyone without a stable Western broadband connection, and unpleasant for everyone else.
- Avamander 4y agoWith a bit of work any limits can be fine-tuned usually not to impact actual users behind NATs. Some collateral does happen but that's an unfortunate reality. I'd like you to elaborate on the rest of your comment though.
- dalbasal 4y agoI agree that there's a "that's life" aspect to collateral/tradeoff. That said, I sympathize somewhat with the parent. "Done right, negative side effects are minimal" is an uncomforting statement. First, because things are often not implemented correctly. There are a lot of details and tuning that will often fail to materialize in practice. Second, because long tail usability issues can often go overlooked. The abuse->anti-abuse feedback loop is pretty tight. Abuse gets identified and counteracted. The anti-abuse-> UX problems loop tends to be noticeably looser. Often, it's just aggregates (revenue/AUD/etc).
- hbn 4y agoGoogle search seems to have this issue for most of the regions near me on the VPN I use (Private Internet Access) Sometimes I just turn it on if I have to fire off a few searches because it'll make me complete a long, tedious captcha for EVERY search