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Re:Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me by throwawayffffas on Monday August 25, 2025 @03:40AM (#45011304)
> If you ban a residential proxy IP you're likely to impact real users while the bad actor simply switches.

Are you really? How likely do you think is a legit customer/user to be on the same IP as a residential proxy? Sure residential IPS get reused, but you can handle that by making the block last 6-8 hours, or a day or two.

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Re:Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me by richardwhiuk on Monday August 25, 2025 @04:46AM (#45011693)
In these days of CGNAT, a residential IP is shared by multiple customers.
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Re:Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me by immibis on Monday August 25, 2025 @10:13AM (#45014079)
Very likely. You can voluntarily run one to make ~$10/month in cryptocurrency. Many others are botnets. They aren't signing up for new internet connections solely to run proxies on.
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Re:Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me by micahdeath on Thursday August 28, 2025 @05:32PM (#45057280)
We blocked AT&T Mobile once... You get lots of complaints that way and we only blocked them for an hour.
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