Re:Personal VPN Services are Snake-Oil
by username135 on Sunday April 14, 2024 @05:11PM
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Why is your assumption that VPN traffic is being blocked because it's malicious?
If you read carefully, you may see that they did not say that "VPN traffic is being blocked because it's malicious"
Re:Personal VPN Services are Snake-Oil
by jonathantf2 on Sunday April 14, 2024 @08:04PM
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Because I've hosted websites where blocking datacentre IPs has caused a massive reduction in spam and malicious activity - and tried to use Google search with Mullvad dialled only to be greeted by a CAPTCHA every other search.
As someone who operated a high fraud target during the pandemic, I am comfortable asserting that while not all commercial VPN traffic is fraudulent or malicious, most fraudulent or malicious traffic is over VPN.
Re:Personal VPN Services are Snake-Oil
by SkyPuncher on Sunday April 14, 2024 @06:08PM
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Because it absolutely is.
I occasionally fire up Mullvad when I’m on the go. I get blocked way more often when I use it
Re:Personal VPN Services are Snake-Oil
by hsbauauvhabzb on Sunday April 14, 2024 @06:19PM
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Because people run crawlers and perform illegal activity, and/or because ‘security companies’ sell the IP lists as low reputation potentially malicious IPs?
It's the same with any broker service. Fire up a Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel for the same effect.
Anyone who has browsed through one of these personal VPN services - or even a DIY VPN from a datacentre IP - for more than about 10 minutes will have experienced the increase in captcha's.
>Anyone who has browsed through one of these personal VPN services - or even a DIY VPN from a datacentre IP - for more than about 10 minutes will have experienced the increase in captcha's.
So has anyone behind random CGNAT.
He can barely work the Sky box never mind stream stuff from the internet, he got duped into thinking it would make him "safer" when in reality it just makes using the internet a lot harder as everyone flags your traffic as malicious based on the datacentre IP.