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Ethically: Bad actors use a lot of things; that's a poor excuse for harming the innocent. Practically: The economics probably check out, but bear in mind that it's not one-sided; this will cost you legitimate users.
If the cost of fraud this stops is more than the lost cost of legitimate users..
Have visited the site through my self hosted OpenVPN tunnel and got 0 for both the VPN and proxy score.
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>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).
Bad actors use windows computers. We should ban all windows users from the internet. And android. I don’t want these poor people racking up my bandwidth costs when they’re not profitable data cows I can exploit or at least compel to buy something.
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>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).
Ethically: Bad actors use a lot of things; that's a poor excuse for harming the innocent. Practically: The economics probably check out, but bear in mind that it's not one-sided; this will cost you legitimate users.
Should I be able to walk around stores wearing balaclavas? Sure, robbers wear balaclavas, but innocent people do too.
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>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).
Bad actors use windows computers. We should ban all windows users from the internet. And android. I don’t want these poor people racking up my bandwidth costs when they’re not profitable data cows I can exploit or at least compel to buy something.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ethically: Bad actors use a lot of things; that's a poor excuse for harming the innocent. Practically: The economics probably check out, but bear in mind that it's not one-sided; this will cost you legitimate users.
> Ethically: Bad actors use a lot of things; that's a poor excuse for harming the innocent. Should I be able to walk around stores wearing balaclavas? Sure, robbers wear balaclavas, but innocent people do too.
This isn't accurate at all. From my iPhone with no vpn it says I'm on a vpn and a proxy. This changes each time I refresh the page.
some (most?) iphones use apple's private relay (akamai) in some capacity
Interestingly, Google One VPN is also not detected. I suspect that's due to Google intentionally sharing that IP range with Google Fi.