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greyblast Friday at 7:26 PM2 repliesview on HN

Meanwhile, there is a whole grey market built around this. People sell “CGNAT mobile proxies” that ride on carrier and ISP NAT, and the whole point is that they are a pain to block without nuking huge ISP ranges. So they get marketed as a convenient way to dodge shadowbans, spam filters, and basically any abuse defense that relies on IP reputation.


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hypeateilast Friday at 7:36 PM

> the whole point is that they are a pain to block

What makes them a pain to block? Angry users or some central database that lists these addresses as "do not block"?

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pixl97last Friday at 7:37 PM

It would be nice if we had a blackout CGNAT day where a bunch of major sites don't serve traffic to people behind CGNAT to give the ISPs a bit of a scare.

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