[data_maan]

This company is providing a horrible anti-service!

Random company website you are visiting: "We're sorry, we can't offer you access to our service today, as you IP score was below our required threshold. Please try again later and have a nice day."

[mid-kid]

This is the sort of thing the likes of cloudflare and google use to decide whether it shows you a captcha or not. I agree discrimimating on things like IP and User Agent and cookies as well as other things is undesireable, but I'm glad this site is at least transparent about it.

[jonathan-kosgei]

No, if your reputation is really bad you'll probably just be shown a captcha.

[data_maan]

No, Cloudfare often just blocks you.

And if it doesn't, do you think that is a better solution, solving a captcha every 5 minutes? Just try using Google from behind a serious VPN provider, see how that works for you.

Also, what is your opinion on geoblock, do you think that is a good thing?

It seems you are one of the company's representatives that has never in his life consistently used a VPN or Tor, so you don't even know to what kind of restricted internet your company's products are leading to.

[byyll]

Although I am not a fan of cloudflare, cloudflare doesn't just block you. It's up to the administrator to choose what action he applies to what type of user.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/firewall/cf-firewall-rules...

[jonathan-kosgei]

To clarify, showing captchas is what a number of our customers do and I doubt they do it as aggressively as google.

Geoblocks are unfortunately often necessary to comply with the law or contractual obligations eg. media streaming.

[data_maan]

> I doubt they do it as aggressively as google.

While I would like to believe you the problems is that until there is a law on how much you can pester people with captchas (and you basically can pester them into oblivion) , privacy-conscious people are simply at the mercy of the sysadmin deciding for them how usable the company service is made. Which is a decidedly bad state of affairs, since he could simply wake up at any day, whip up Google-style captcha-ing and as a VPN user you simply would have no option for recourse :(

[donmcronald]

Not even close. PayPal, Twitter, Facebook, Discord, etc. all insta-ban or lock your account if you come from a low reputation IP.

These services make it impossible to participate online without giving big tech your identity. IMO they’re worse than everyone else combined because they play a critical role in helping all tech companies discriminate against people that want privacy.

[data_maan]

Pretty much this.

Actually they ban your account and want you to upload ypur ID.

The weirdest thing was that Facebook a while ago had an onion adress too (presumably so that people from repressive regimes could access it). But if you'd use Tor to access them using the regular web: insta-ban.

[TT-392]

And then you complete the captcha, the page reloads, and you have to solve another captcha. Never actually getting to the site