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It is even easier to block hosting providers. They typically publish official lists. Here's the full list for both of those providers:

(And even if they don't publish them, you can just look up the ranges owned by any autonomous network with the appropriate registry.)

It won’t end up in our proxy detection database, but we track hosting provider ranges separately: https://www.iplocate.io/data/hosting-providers/

That's a hosting service IP block. Some sites block them already. Netflix for instance.