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That's not the same. You get blocked because the IP address you're coming from is associated with a VPN list, not because they're analyzing the traffic in detail.

The simplest methods block known datacenter IP ranges like you thought. More will score it based on several heuristics and a reputation over time. If you get 100 different users connecting from a single IP, it's probably not someone's home internet connection.

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> If you get 100 different users connecting from a single IP, it's probably not someone's home internet connection.

Or, their so-called "smart" TV is acting as a proxy without their informed consent.

One of the positive side effects of smart TV proxies: IP addresses become useless information.

A very Swiftian modest proposal to increase privacy: Make Smart TVs mandatory, so that IP addresses become useless information.

> If you get 100 different users connecting from a single IP, it's probably not someone's home internet connection.

In some parts of the world hiding (NAT) entire neighborhoods behind one public IP is normal practice.

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