Tell HN: Please stop using the IP addresses as some kind of human score
Last year I moved somewhere where the only good internet option is Starlink. I also observed that during peak times tunnelling my traffic to a VPN server gives me better realisability. So I got myself an aws instance and tunnel all my traffic through that.
Since then the internet is broken.
Some examples:
- Apple Store is throwing errors all the time
- I keep getting captchas at random websites
- Streaming services assume I’m not in US
- Websites are throwing wrong password errors, just because they don’t like my IP!
- HN thinks I’m posting too fast..
Folks, just because my traffic is coming from AWS doesn’t mean I’m a bit or scraper or scalper or hacker. Stop breaking the internet, please.
Since then the internet is broken.
Some examples: - Apple Store is throwing errors all the time - I keep getting captchas at random websites - Streaming services assume I’m not in US - Websites are throwing wrong password errors, just because they don’t like my IP! - HN thinks I’m posting too fast..
Folks, just because my traffic is coming from AWS doesn’t mean I’m a bit or scraper or scalper or hacker. Stop breaking the internet, please.