Comment by codedokode
7 years ago
I don't understand what is the motivation to block Tor or VPNs if there is no large volumes of traffic from specific IP. Does Cloudflare dislike anonymous users?
Also, did you see the permission list for a Firefox extension? [1] It says "Access your data for all websites".
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-pass/
That permission is required for a vast set of features in chrome and Firefox extensions because of how poorly the chrome extension API was designed. So while it indeed has that permission, there are lots of things it could be doing with it that don't impact your data at all. You'd have to audit the code.
I think that the idea is these IP addresses are leased out, renewed, changed frequently. While I might connect to my VPN and do basic stuff... another person before me might have used it much more heavily for example. So the IP which we shared is flagged as possibly nefarious. It doesn't know I am a totally different person. Only that, in the past, someone has used this particular IP in a negative way.