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by xacky 4 days ago
IP allocations are inaccurate due to all the VPNs, (CG)NATs and proxies spoofing everything now, the whole internet is tangled up like weeds.
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That's a reaction to people trying to use IP address as an identifying signal. The reaction is that it's only an identifying signal for normal users, just like all the rest of the signals. Normal people get blocked by Cloudflare. Sophisticated bots never get blocked.