My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero

Re:My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero by yokem55 on Monday January 04, 2021 @11:33PM (#25642148)

It's a static address that hasn't changed for 3+ years. The only thing I can think of the makes it proxy-ish, is that I have a 6 person household here.

Edit- The IP my employer uses as its outbound nat IP that we vpn from while WFH (so it actually is a proxy) gets a clean bill of health while our corporate email server (not a proxy at all) is tagged as one.

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Re:My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero by grahamburger on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @01:04AM (#25642667)

It's not just IPs that have reputation scores but IP ranges and AS entities. Residential IP ranges are often dinged by default because of the risk of infected home PCs sending spam.

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Re:My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero by yokem55 on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @11:48AM (#25647378)

There absolutely is a reputation associated with individual addresses and ranges of addresses. And that reputation can be derived from numerous legitimate means (honeypot activity, spam, reverse dns info), but whatever these folks are doing regarding "proxy/vpn detection" is indistinguishable from snake oil.

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Re:My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero by grahamburger on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @01:55PM (#25649369)

I would guess that all or nearly all residential IPs are marked as at least 'low proxy' risk because of the risk of malware on personal devices.

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