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Comment by exploraz

Other hypotheses:

- VPN/Proxy/Datacenter IP/Tor usage

- Censorship bypass tools triggering destination server's firewall (suspicious TLS fingerprint or connection characteristics, or bad proxy IP)

- Bad ISP (e.g. one ISP IP address or range of addresses shared by so many users that could create collateral damage if one or more user gone rogue)

- Actual botnet/hidden residential proxy exit node on the same IP/local network (e.g. TV boxes or SDKs embedded inside apps that users are not aware of)

- Strict privacy settings (unlikely to cause 403 straight away), or obscure browsers (also unlikely, but can trigger firewall because of connection fingerprint/characteristics)

- Actual bad behavior (scraping, etc)

parent exploraz 2 months ago

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