We should make residential proxies illegal

dongttebayo 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

We really shouldn’t - this seems like perhaps one of the worst ideas one could propose in an era of rising authoritarian rule. Seems like a bad time to be putting silly restrictions on how folks route their traffic.

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derwiki 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Tinfoil hat says it’s the gov’t doing it for those reasons /s

	▲	meowface 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I will disregard your cowardly "/s" and say: no, I bet it isn't.

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TZubiri 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

ok greenie

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kachapopopow 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

breaking the law by using wireguard to access my home network, hmm, great idea.

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TZubiri 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Ok, I'll be a bit more specific, banning businesses and the trade of proxies that are purposefully marked as residential, in order to evade firewall blocks, and even to evade proxy blocks.

You gotta draw the line in the sand somewhere, VPNs are already morally dubious, but if you ban the most shady of VPNs, residential proxies, then you can at least guarantee service providers the right to deny service to proxy users, while allowing proxy users to use the proxy everwhere they are welcome in.

	▲	kachapopopow 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		yah, but how else am I going to create millions of youtube accounts to spam sex bot ads >:( on a more serious note, it's just not really possible since most residential proxy sites are botnets :)

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jeroenhd 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Making them illegal seems far-fetched, but at this point something like email blacklists but for web services is becoming inevitable.

At the moment, that's what Cloudflare is doing. They're just not obvious enough, leading to people on forums (and here) asking "why do I constantly need to fill out captchas to enter websites".

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teeray 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

...and suddenly no one is allowed to VPN back through their home router.

	▲	rjdj377dhabsn 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		How would that be enforced?