alt Hacker NewsI would be interested in some examples of valid traffic that they would block. For the purposes of the document I do not consider anything from a data-center to be valid traffic. People can of course skip any or all steps, experiment with one at a time on a test server as they should.
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ACCount37 • today at 8:21 PM
VPN exits often "come from datacenters". And there are entire countries where the web can be unusable without.
If you don't have LaLiga in your country, that doesn't mean everyone is so lucky. Blanket IP range bans, in this day and age? Basically a proclamation of incompetence.
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> Obvious proxy is obvious.
> if ($http_x_forwarded_for) {....
This may block schools and libraries that use content blockers. Often the internal client is left to make abuse tracking easier (or because the overworked admin didn't know they could turn it off).