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festus@lemmy.ca 2 weeks agoThere are residential IP providers that provide services to scrapers, etc. that involves them having thousands of IPs available from the same IP ranges as real users. They route traffic through these IPs via malware, hacked routers, “free” VPN clients, etc. If you block the IP range for one of these addresses you’ll also block real users.
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Now that makes sense. I hadn’t considered rogue ISPs.
festus@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It’s not even necessarily the ISPs that are doing it. In many cases they don’t like this because their users start getting blocked on websites; it’s bad actors piggy-packing on legitimate users connections without those users’ knowledge.