Comment on How to Build a Powerful Reverse Proxy Firewall for Blocking the Evil Web-Scraping Robot Hordes from Hell

• AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because the VPN might be the reason you’re being blocked from the page.

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  • BaroqueInMind@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Why would a post on a blog site about blocking AI bots be relevant to my VPN?

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    • uranibaba@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Since multiple people will be using the same IP when using a VPN. If one person is a bad actor and causes the IP to be blacklisted, it will affect you too.

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    • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Uranibab said.

      Try turning off your VPN.

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