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TZubiriyesterday at 6:38 PM4 repliesview on HN

We should make residential proxies illegal


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dongttebayoyesterday at 6:51 PM

We really shouldn’t - this seems like perhaps one of the worst ideas one could propose in an era of rising authoritarian rule. Seems like a bad time to be putting silly restrictions on how folks route their traffic.

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kachapopopowyesterday at 7:45 PM

breaking the law by using wireguard to access my home network, hmm, great idea.

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jeroenhdyesterday at 7:25 PM

Making them illegal seems far-fetched, but at this point something like email blacklists but for web services is becoming inevitable.

At the moment, that's what Cloudflare is doing. They're just not obvious enough, leading to people on forums (and here) asking "why do I constantly need to fill out captchas to enter websites".

teerayyesterday at 6:48 PM

...and suddenly no one is allowed to VPN back through their home router.

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