[pocket_cheese]

IP restrictions are easy to overcome using mobile networks. Basically, mobile networks assigns your device an internal ip and NATs out to a very small pool of ip public addresses. If they block you, they also block a very large chunk of legitimate mobile users. I'm a big ol' dummy when it comes to networking, so I imagine I explained something poorly... so any mobile network nerds feel free to pile on!

Captchas are super easy! There's a gagillion captcha bypass services for every type of captcha. Just snag the captcha token, send it in an API call, and then you get a verified captcha token.

See CGNAT for more details about mobile networks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT#cite_note-of...

It's pretty much impossible to stop the top 1% of the most dedicated scrapers without affecting end user experience.

[tjohns]

> IP restrictions are easy to overcome using mobile networks.

Only if the connection is over IPv4.

The mobile networks were among the first major adopters of IPv6, and most now give each device a unique IPv6 address.

[abhibeckert]

My mobile device (iPhone) relays most traffic through the nearest Akamai datacenter. So they don't get my IP address. And that datacenter has a massive number of IP addresses, which are rotated.

[denkmoon]

Out of interest how do you know it's being relayed through an Akamai DC? I assume you're talking about private relay which I also use, but I thought cloudflare was the 2nd hop for that?

[lathiat]

They're using multiple providers including Fastly, Akamai and Cloudflare: https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2021/06/apple-private-rel...

[sjtgraham]

This is only HTTP and not HTTPS traffic, which most www traffic is these days.

[dclusin]

reddits api is ip4 only