Comment on This whole "Sign in to prove you're not a bot" thing is pissing me off

• Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean it’s not corporate bullshit

    Yes, it is. VPNs have nothing to do with needing to log in, nor does “”“”““bad actors””“”" have anything to do with it

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    • tyler@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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    • MrQuallzin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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