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If you're planning to run a VPN server on Amazon EC2, be forewarned that lots of sites are going to block you. For example, Yelp, Craigslist, the StackOverflow
by ef4 13y ago
If you're planning to run a VPN server on Amazon EC2, be forewarned that lots of sites are going to block you. For example, Yelp, Craigslist, the StackOverflow family, Hulu, and Bank of America.
- skrebbel 13y agoAny idea why they do that?
- jlgreco 13y agoI heard before that stackoverflow does it because of scrapers, or something like that.
- jacquesm 13y agoAnti-bot / anti-griefer measures.
- borski 13y agoBecause often, EC2 is used by spammers, botnets, and the like. Turns out when you make starting a box really simple, evildoers will use your service as well. Craigslist & Co. dislike EC2 in general, for that reason.
- ef4 13y agoIn the case of things like Hulu, it's an attempt to enforce their geographic boundaries (so that Europeans don't buy cheap EC2 instances to watch America-only licensed content). I assume most of the others are trying to block scrapers that copy all their content and republish it.