Re:Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click
by doctorfoo on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @11:54AM
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You missed:
> there's plenty of ways a non tech person might have a shared IP
e.g. some mobile internet, university/school campuses, workplaces, shared wifi points. All of which might have some abuse. I guess perhaps not the amount of a VPN/Tor.
That being said, there's more people than ever using Tor lately. And I'm sure CloudFlare are more than aware of Tor already. And lots of relatively casual users signing up for VPNs to get to blocked file sharing sites etc.
Just now, in my other tab:
> Please complete the security check to access torrentfreak.com
> there's plenty of ways a non tech person might have a shared IP
e.g. some mobile internet, university/school campuses, workplaces, shared wifi points. All of which might have some abuse. I guess perhaps not the amount of a VPN/Tor.
That being said, there's more people than ever using Tor lately. And I'm sure CloudFlare are more than aware of Tor already. And lots of relatively casual users signing up for VPNs to get to blocked file sharing sites etc.
Just now, in my other tab:
> Please complete the security check to access torrentfreak.com