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XFinity's website for new internet service blocks VPN and automated traffic with a heavy hand. I've had trouble accessing my own account, even when logged in as
by dymk 4y ago
XFinity's website for new internet service blocks VPN and automated traffic with a heavy hand. I've had trouble accessing my own account, even when logged in as a paying customer, depending on if I'm using a VPN.
This was probably originally meant to keep wide-scale pricing information secret from competitors, but it sure has the nice side effect of making it hard to verify their coverage promises.
- celestialcheese 4y agoWith enough residential and mobile proxies, you can scrape almost anything.
- Fatnino 4y agoA friend of mine had a project that would get it's rotating ip addresses by connecting to wifi of the parade of Google busses that dropped off and picked up in front of his office.
- celestialcheese 4y agoThat's incredible, I love stories like this. Google busses had open wifi?
- Fatnino 4y agoOpen to employees
- dymk 4y agoThe first rule about scrape-club is you don't talk about scrape-club :)
- RockRobotRock 4y agoLuminati is expensive
- mrguyorama 4y agoShouldn't we push for a world that doesn't depend on independently smart and well off random people to exhaustively track which things are objectively and clearly lies? Why is there not a government group whose entire job is to seek out businesses doing shitty things and claw back unjustly earned profits? Where are our ombudsmen
- celestialcheese 4y agoSeriously. This is something the NIST is perfectly set up to do.