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It's a temporary solution though. It's only going to get more draconian. Next thing you know the talk is about punishing VPN users, because now they can be pain
by Aerroon 1y ago
It's a temporary solution though. It's only going to get more draconian. Next thing you know the talk is about punishing VPN users, because now they can be painted as evading the law.
- nicman23 1y agoi mean yeah but you cannot do shit all about a vps. commercial vpns yeah you can ban and monitor. a vps is your own device just elsewhere
- mschuster91 1y ago> i mean yeah but you cannot do shit all about a vps Of course you can. The AS numbers of major hosting providers are well known and it is already common practice to ban associated IP addresses for stuff that should only be done by legitimate users.
- nicman23 1y agoyou cannot ban aws or linenode my dude
- jbstack 1y agoWhy not?
- nicman23 1y agobecause half of the internet is there
- mschuster91 1y agoThat's why I explicitly wrote: "for stuff that should only be done by legitimate users". That means Netflix et al can (and do) ban everything that even remotely smells like a datacenter IP range and not a residential one, because that is a common method of evading regional bans or undermine pricing structure. And on top of that... if the focus of your website is humans, you might want to cut off all datacenter originating traffic as well. Save yourself the hassle of dealing with AI scrapers.
- jbstack 1y agoBut in many cases a server operator doesn't expect any legitimate traffic from that half of the internet, or is willing to block traffic from it. For example, there's generally no reason a customer would use their internet banking app with traffic routed via a datacentre other than for the reason you proposed (masking their IP address), so if the bank wants to prevent people doing that then blocking all data centre traffic is an effective way of doing it.