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wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It would unless they started banning VPN IPs. I guess Musk is stupid enough to do it

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  • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Dont most vpn companies cycle their active ips? Or is that more of a niche thing only one or two options do

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    • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There are still companies that actively maintain lists of VPN IPs. My employer is a big user of Akamai for CDN & web security. Although we don’t use it, I know Akamai has a highly accurate list of VPN addresses that customers have access to.

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    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They have dedicated blocks of IPs assigned to them, he would just have to block the blocks.

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      • Womble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        if vpns still run in china where the entire security establishment (including all the network infrastructre) are playing cat and mouse with trying to block them i think they can manage it for a tech company clinging on with 1/3 of the required workforce.

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    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Vpns are open source, commodity software. You can set one up with a script at any webhost.

      He would have to block every site that lets you spin up server, so most of the cloud, to stop spammers using vpns.

      Its bot possible to actually block vpns without nation state access to interent infastructure, and even then it’s not easy.

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• machinin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If I’m a bot owner and I could pay $500/year to ensure my 500 bots run unfettered, it might be with it. I can influence a significant amount of discourse with 500 accounts xitting, rexitting the original xit that was xit out, etc.

  If he thinks he can make money from bot managers, it may make sense.

  I will probably decrease trust in the whole xitty system, but maybe Musk doesn’t care?

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  • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And you’ll use 500 accounts for that?

    I think that when they are banned, you’ll have to come up with 500 new ways to pay

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    • eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think you underestimate how many validated credit cards come up for sale every week on the internet.

      Trust me, paying $1 isn’t even a speed bump to scammers: they pay it with Other People’s Money.

      That’s the tough part about white-hat, you follow the rules, they don’t.

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