Yeeah i guess your right. It would just be pretty insane move from google in my opinion there are just so many people and organisations that need vpns for like domain use and whatnot.
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NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 days agoIt very much is possible to ban “all” public and even commercial VPNs. VPN traffic tends to have very distinct characteristics in logs and it is not overly difficult for orgs to get the IP ranges allocated to each company.
What is not possible is banning all vpn traffic in the sense that a friend or family member sets up wireguard for you. But that is a drop in the bucket to the point of being functionally nonexistent.
Joonquli@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
If your corporate VPN is routing ALL traffic then your IT department are idiots. And I am pretty sure said company would thank google for blocking youtube from their employees.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
Depends.
I am in uni, so a bit different, but there’s many sites that allow access to articles, studies, books, etc. to us based on source IP. And I guess it could be hard to route only those, especially if some of them decide to use Cloudflare or similar.Another option is doing so for easier monitoring of work devices that people will always try to use for things they’re not supposed to.
Joonquli@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
The commentor said that google would block ALL the vpns. Not just youtube. Google as a whole.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
And, when discussing stuff like this, it is important to understand that “all VPNs” actually means corporate and public VPNs.
If you want to have an actual conversation then context matters. Rather than just fixating on nonsensical overly literal interpretations because you only want to be “technically correct” by attacking a strawman.
Tanoh@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There are even companies selling lists of IPs for all sort of behaviour and characteristics. Just adding one of those is trivial.
Though google has a lot more data and engineers so they could just create a better one themselves.
It is a constant cat and mouse game between VPN providers and other actors. A few IPs get on a list, they try to find others, repeat