Comment on This whole "Sign in to prove you're not a bot" thing is pissing me off
kitnaht@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Doesn’t happen to me, but I don’t browse behind a VPN. People behind VPNs get this usually because lots of bad actors also hide behind VPNs.
Commercial VPNs are too inconvenient and satirated these days. It is not 2010 anymore. Every commercial VPN is leveraged by scrapers and other bots. If you use them, expect to face captchas. For the same price as a commercial VPN provider I rent a VPS and run OpenVPN on it. Personal, private, dedicated IPv4.
You are all nerds, act like it.
If I could get a VPS for $2 for something like this, I would definitely swap off of my VPN provider.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Stop listening to corpo bullshit, you sound like a fucking moron
Pika@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I mean it’s not corporate bullshit. Yes there are plenty of legitimate uses, but the majority of bad actors are over VPN’s, so hence the statement is true.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Yes, it is. VPNs have nothing to do with needing to log in, nor does “”“”““bad actors””“”" have anything to do with it
tyler@programming.dev 4 days ago
They literally do. Scammers, DDoSers, phishers, bot farms, etc all use VPNs to hide their locations. VPN IPs are commonly blacklisted by providers like cloudflare, meaning that if you use them you will be subject to anti bot security like captchas and time delays. Do you think that vpns just are magically not detectable?
MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You got a source for that?
One of the ways VPNs work is by having all your web traffic look like it’s coming from somewhere else, obscuring where you’re really from. They will see a different IP address than what yours actually is. If you were the only person doing this there would be no problem, but VPNs only have so many servers so companies often know what IP addresses those are. What they see is THOUSANDS of actions being taken by a single IP address, so of course it looks like bots! It makes total sense to have some verification to help against DDOS attacks and bad actors.