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by fc417fc802 21 days ago
Regardless of the precise logic it's no excuse for the policy. Simply hand out a sufficiently difficult PoW to prevent widespread abuse.

I'm quite certain it isn't a generic "datacenter" list though because a given VPN exit that was working will suddenly stop. Meanwhile I have a valid cookie yet that is disregarded.
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alightsoul 20 days ago
Wikipedia maintains a quite exhaustive list of them to prevent spam and they also block vpn IPs as soon as they're found.
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fc417fc802 20 days ago
That is an entirely different matter. They only block (AFAIK) editing which is a scenario where PoW would not be expected to solve the problem. What I was talking about here is IP banning as a (boneheaded) mitigation against high volume scrapers.
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