Mastodawn

sleepy duck pond appreciator 🦆✨🏳️‍🌈1d ago

a few weeks ago i spun up a scaleway in europe to use as an imgur proxy... it's still blocked from actually hitting imgur directly, but at least i can see forum embeds now.
it is of course also banned from reddit.
kinda missing the days of the internet not being like this.

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sleepy duck pond appreciator 🦆✨🏳️‍🌈1d ago

i should figure out which ISPs in europe do lots of mass CGNAT and get a pi zero or something sat out there instead

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Vivi 1d ago

@0x47df that isn't a bad idea, do these services make exceptions to their ip bans when they know there are tons of eyeballs behind an address?

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sleepy duck pond appreciator 🦆✨🏳️‍🌈

@vivithecanine you might get captcha'd more than usual, but the vibe seems to be 'yes'. ymmv, after all, the service is still free to do as they see fit.

i think the bigger thing is just not having an ip that sits in one of the many geo-ip databases as non-residential. a lot of the geo-ip providers will classify what type of connectivity the AS number is providing, ie are they an ISP for people/offices, or for robots/servers. some mark known proxies/vpn space.
so maybe the CGNAT side is irrelevant, but i wondered if it helps mask user-agent, locale, etc, by hiding among the noise it presumably generates with other traffics.