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They are usually using residential IPs through SOCK5. I am not sure how they are getting these residential IPs but it is definitively suspicious. So by blockin
by csomar 1y ago
They are usually using residential IPs through SOCK5. I am not sure how they are getting these residential IPs but it is definitively suspicious.
So by blocking these IPs, you are blocking your users. (ie: in many coffeshops, I get the "IP Blocked" banner, my guess is that they are running software on unsuspecting users to route this traffic).
- sroelants 1y agoThey use scammy providers like Bright Data[1] that let app authors embed their malware (for a compensation, I'm sure) which turns users' devices into crawler proxies. [1]: https://brightdata.com/trustcenter/sourcing https://brightdata.com/trustcenter/sourcing
- moebrowne 1y ago> So by blocking these IPs, you are blocking your users. There were 122 million residential internet connections in the US in 2024 so for an app with 1 million users the chance of affecting a single user is <1%. [1] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-411463A1.pdf https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-411463A1.pdf