[mindslight]

The difference is as you just said - one is being used for privacy, and the other for "nefarious reasons".

It seems like you're trying to imply an association, while avoiding having to make the "if you have nothing to hide" argument explicitly.

[xist]

Not at all.

I'm wondering why you expect the websites you're attempting to utilize to understand your intentions are "pure" when I would argue that setup is vastly more commonly used for nefarious purposes.

They do blocking for a reason. I'm sure if you contacted them they would explain they lose $$$$$$ a year due to fraud/abuse/hack/nefarious attempts coming from setups similar to yours, which dwarfs however much you might buy from them. I understand their position.

There are commercial VPN and security solutions etc that would achieve some of the goals - undoubtedly at a higher cost than what you're running. You would essentially paying for a boost in reputation that websites would recognize as being more on the "good" side than "bad".

It's quite unfortunate for you I agree but I don't blame them at all.

A suggestion - get a more premiere data center host and get a /29 network allocated to you (can be using a LLC for privacy). Essentially become a commercial entity and pass the sniff test for a lot of websites.

Or subscribe to a service that does that for you, and your frustrations will melt away.

[mindslight]

I expect websites to use IP addresses for their purpose of routing packets back to me, and perhaps some slightly-above-L2 concerns like rate limiting.

And yes, I understand these businesses have fallen for snake oil salesmen telling them things like VPSs are indicators of "nefarious purposes". But the actual reality is why would someone with "nefarious purposes" need or want to use a VPS? Rather someone looking to do credit card fraud is going to be using a proxy service that runs through residential connections via cracked machines.

Commercial VPNs, which I also use for some types of traffic, get hassled just as much by websites. So no, that is not a solution.

Getting my own /29 would defeat the entire purpose of browsing from a rotating data center IP, which is to defeat IP-based tracking.

The only way to solve this dynamic is for enough people to start browsing from VPNs, CGNAT, etc, that the snake oil salesmen have to move on to something else.

[byyll]

>these businesses have fallen for snake oil salesmen telling them things like VPSs are indicators of "nefarious purposes"

They are indicators. 95% of the abuse on my VPS came from China, services like Contabo, DigitalOcean, Linode, Azure, Oracle, GCP, M247, and Tor. Some of these are no longer allowed to even reach L7 for my website. One other statistic I noticed is that some of those providers have 0% legitimate traffic.