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ok, but how ?

• lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago
  A given VPN provider will have some list of IP addresses from which traffic will exit. The detection would be an IP banlist and stopping would be refusal to serve requests.
  • chaxor 3y ago
    Pretty much every company, and many homes run vpns. I guess those should also be added to the list.
    • lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago
      I get the point but the reason a government will want to ban VPNs is that the VPN will provide some level of anonymity. A corporate VPN plausibly might run afoul of that want but a home VPN will pretty accurately identify at least the home from which a request was made. I'm sure that's sufficiently identifiable. "VPN users" is a phrase which generally refers to "users of VPN services" and not "people who manage their home network".
    • thefurdrake 3y ago
      They're probably going to be banning consistent connections coming from datacenter IPs. That was the impression I got from how other entities have handled this. Once you rule out VPN usage, there are (probably?) very few reasons a post on TPFKAT should come from anything other than a residential or mobile device IP.