Comment by darkwater

The only viable way to even get most of them is to shut down internet access entirely. It's not a realistic solution, unlike blocking a few well known IP ranges belonging to a large corp like Cloudflare.

And even if you managed to get them all beforehand, some VPN providers will adapt and keep some servers in reserve, putting them online just as you managed to block the previous ones. Getting around internet censorship is a large chunk of their business, and some are really good at it.

It's a game. The VPN marketplace is huge so it's wack-a-mole.

Big companies don't hide their VPN ASNs. Obscure, for sure, but getting a good list isn't hard. Usually they get blocked.

Smaller companies may pass under the radar, and have higher tolerance for risky strategies.

The fringe providers are the problem. They aggressively change IP ranges, front-vs-obscure ownership, and play dirty. Shady folks will resell residential ranges. End-users often get tainted goods.

... and you still have the collateral damage game when VPNs host infra with big cloud providers vs colofarms vs self-host, etc.

I agree it is not the right solution.

But anyone who is pulling docker images in a sunday afternoon while the rest of the country is glued to their screen to watch a football game or enjoying a sunny sunday outside having beers and tapas and what not should be capable of setting up wireguard.

Given the context of the HN audience, it's probably something you can do.

It takes very light technical skills to deploy algo