_whm1

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by _whm1 5y ago
> They must be buying a database of IP address locations and VPN addresses from somebody. There are services that can detect most commercial VPN services, e.g. https://focsec.com
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by _whm1 5y ago
Focsec* provides VPN, Proxy and bot detection via an API for such use cases (trial abuse). * https://focsec.com/
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by _whm1 5y ago
There are so called "residential proxies" that use a IP from some normal consumer ISP connection, not some datacenter IP. However there are services that can detect such residentials too, e.g. https://focsec.com/
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by _whm1 5y ago
Selfhosted alternative: https://github.com/kennell/curldrop
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by _whm1 5y ago
This is easy to block since all IPs of these cloud machines will belong to the same ASN. Advanced scrapers mostly use residential IPs nowadays, but there are some services to detect those too, e.g. https://focsec.com/
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by _whm1 6y ago
Another self-hosted script (Python) that aims for easy integration with curl https://github.com/kennell/curldrop
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Curldrop – a curl counterpart for file uploads(github.com)
1 points by _whm1 6y ago|0 comments
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by _whm1 7y ago
When i moved to the US i had no idea about the amount of zonening laws, construction regulations and building codes. Coming from europe i naively thought that since the US is the "land of the free" people could basically build wha
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by _whm1 9y ago
I don't think this is a good long term investment. Disclaimer: I worked for a Spotify competitor in the past, so i have a pretty solid understanding of how the business works. I think it is a bad investment for one simple reason: Spoti
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Ask HN: Enter market with a well-funded competitor?
2 points by _whm1 11y ago|1 comments