Comment by Aurornis

> I want exactly the same content visible no matter who you are or where you are connecting from

The reason those IP addresses get blocked is not because of "who" is connecting, but "what"

Traffic from datacenter address ranges to sites like Reddit is almost entirely bots and scrapers. They can put a tremendous load on your site because many will try to run their queries as fast as they can with as many IPs as they can get.

Blocking these IP addresses catches a few false positives, but it's an easy step to make botting and scraping a little more expensive. Residential proxies aren't all that expensive, but now there's a little line item bill that comes with their request volume that makes them think twice.

> We need more residential proxies, not less

Great, you can always volunteer your home IP address as a start. There are services that will pay you a nominal amount for it, even.