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Live proxy and VPN detection

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Re: Live proxy and VPN detection

#31
Didn’t detect that I was on a VPN. From the sounds of the other comments, this is quite unreliable? Without any sort of write-up, the submission seems pretty uninteresting and the discussion will probably be not worth reading.

Re: Live proxy and VPN detection

#32

Detects iCloud private relay via Cloudflare, did not detect Mullvad.

Aside from simple detection, being able to _identify_ private relay is kind of a fundamental required feature for a tool like this, because the utility of identifying proxy/vpn traffic is destroyed if you’re going to lump “everyone with an apple device” into the pool

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Re: Live proxy and VPN detection

#34
Accessed via the Google One VPN and achieved 100% clean slate of "not a VPN".

So tried several other VPNs that should be detected, none were

Perhaps using Firefox breaks this site?

Re: Live proxy and VPN detection

#37
post #15

> This website can detect if your connection is using a Proxy or VPN. Empirically not. > You can add Proxy and VPN detection to your own Website or App. Please don't. Not just because of the false positives and false negatives, but because user privacy is actually a good thing.

>Please don't. Not just because of the false positives and false negatives, but because user privacy is actually a good thing. Like it or not, bad actors use VPNs as well, and for some businesses the adverse selection caused by VPNs basically makes banning VPNs a no-brainer (eg. due to fraud).

All the big corps I ever worked for had their devices configured to go through the central VPN and proxy even for browsing.

But I guess blocking $$$ corporate visitors should be fine by you as well.

Re: Live proxy and VPN detection

#38

Mullvad VPN location set to Frankfurt germany Using the us east test server: Proxy Score: 10/100 - Very likely not a Proxy VPN Score: 0/55 - Very likely not a VPN Using german test server: Proxy Score: 10/100 - Very likely not a Proxy VPN Score: 30/55 - Very likely a VPN The thing that changed between both tests was the flow latencies vs ping latencies check. Clicking on more info it said: "flow variance too large in…

Cloudflare's Warp:

Proxy Score: 55/100 - Very likely a Proxy VPN Score: 15/55 - Could be a VPN (But Unlikely) Client Score: no client threat

And ipinfo gives me:

privacy: Object, vpn: false, proxy: false, tor: false, relay: false, hosting: true, service: "",

Re: Live proxy and VPN detection

#40
post #26

This makes me sad :(

I hope OP fails fantastically. I don't want more companies putting up bullshit filters that have a ton of false positives.

There are already lots of commercial products in the market that do this, much more effectively, with prepopulated databases sourced over thousands of businesses.
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