• njordomir@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      14·
      11 个月前

      Originally, I was just planning on being mildly infuriated, but thank you for the in-depth explanation. Networking is my weakest nerd-stat and its truly interesting. I’ll try a few other servers and see if they are blocked. My VPN provider is known for privacy, so it wouldn’t surprise me if someone is doing sketchy things on there. Then again, it’s only a mild annoyance and an irony since Consumer Reports have reviewed the same provider I have been using.

      • JDubbleu@programming.devEnglish
        10·
        11 个月前

        It’s ironic but makes complete sense if we’re assuming they blocked the VPN server IP.

        Say I’m a malicious user who’s using VPN server #22 from ProtonVPN (my personal favorite provider). The victim (CR in this case) isn’t going to see they’re being attacked by someone on VPN server #22 from ProtonVPN, they’re going to see the IP of that server and nothing else.

        It really doesn’t matter if they did have that information because no human will be involved. The traffic will be marked as malicious and blocked by some software designed to monitor, identify, and block traffic that looks malicious. This is almost always done based on IP. It’s usually reversed in a few days though because IP addresses change frequently, so there’s no sense in continuing to block traffic from an IP you can’t guarantee belongs to the original attacker.

    • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 个月前

      Couldn’t there be some alternative like having VPNs provide a standardized API for websites to report bots from using anonymized data take from the HTTP requests? Then the VPN can block the user after reviewing the usage data they have.

      • Redeven@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 个月前

        That would require the VPN service to keep track of users’ usage and be able to match traffic to user, which most (or most of the big ones at least) very specifically, very on purpose, explicitly say they don’t do, which would be really bad for them if it turned out to be false.

      • njordomir@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        6·
        11 个月前

        That’s right, Chrome had the smiley before I deleted it from my phone. FF uses the infinity sign. Thanks for catching that.

    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
      51·
      11 个月前

      Dunno about op, but for me: various self-hosted interfaces, info for projects in-progress (easily 5-10/project), a few different forums I frequent, interesting stuff I don’t have time for now but will return to when I do.

      Bookmarks get lost/forgotten as I don’t make a point to view them to remember them. Open tabs remind me of their contents every time I switch tabs so I’m much morr likely to return to them. I’m also lazy and don’t want to re-open the same sites I frequent nearly daily.

      Currently only have 21 open, but that’s been much larger.

    • njordomir@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      11 个月前

      That’s pretty good for me. Usually I have the smiley face and just mass delete my tabs every time I flash my device.