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> They must be buying a database of IP address locations and VPN addresses from somebody. There are services that can detect most commercial VPN services, e.g. https://focsec.com

Focsec* provides VPN, Proxy and bot detection via an API for such use cases (trial abuse). * https://focsec.com/

There are so called "residential proxies" that use a IP from some normal consumer ISP connection, not some datacenter IP. However there are services that can detect such residentia…

Selfhosted alternative: https://github.com/kennell/curldrop

This is easy to block since all IPs of these cloud machines will belong to the same ASN. Advanced scrapers mostly use residential IPs nowadays, but there are some services to detec…

Another self-hosted script (Python) that aims for easy integration with curl https://github.com/kennell/curldrop

When i moved to the US i had no idea about the amount of zonening laws, construction regulations and building codes. Coming from europe i naively thought that since the US is the "…

I don't think this is a good long term investment. Disclaimer: I worked for a Spotify competitor in the past, so i have a pretty solid understanding of how the business works. I th…

Hi HN, i am just looking for a quick unbiased opinion. Without giving too many details, a few weeks ago a friend of mine had an idea for a SaaS application, targeting a market of s…