• BuelldozerA
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    4 hours ago

    There are residential IP providers that provide services to scrapers, etc. that involves them having thousands of IPs available from the same IP ranges as real users.

    Now that makes sense. I hadn’t considered rogue ISPs.

    • festus@lemmy.ca
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      It’s not even necessarily the ISPs that are doing it. In many cases they don’t like this because their users start getting blocked on websites; it’s bad actors piggy-packing on legitimate users connections without those users’ knowledge.