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Comment by withinboredom

2 years ago

I'm very curious why you'd do VPN/proxy detection...

But at a previous company I worked at that ran a very large chunk of the internet, we did indexing of nearly the entire internet (even large portions of the dark web) approximately every two weeks. There were about 500 servers doing that non-stop. So, I think it is relatively reasonable if you have 600 servers to do that.

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meroje  2 years ago

In the business of media streaming, rightholder will require that you check for vpn and proxies in addition to countries when deciding if a given viewer will be able to stream a given media.

  • withinboredom  2 years ago

    Does that actually work? That could explain an issue with a particular streaming service I use. There are currently some ongoing routing issues in BGP land and my ISP. When trying to stream, it says I’m using a proxy, so due to the incredible route my packets are taking, that might be it. What’s funny is that the only way to watch this service is to use a vpn right now.

    • meroje  2 years ago

      Routing should not impact the detection, it's usually based on maxmind's anonymous/datacenter database using your IP. Accuracy won't be 100% of course but you have to show compliance.

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