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[–]SaidOverRed 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Not to be bothersome, but wouldn't it be a good thing to block all of IPv6? I'm unsure what downsides this would have, but it would certainly make IPv4 blocks feasible. Then the attackers VPNs would shrink until you only had new services popping up to worry about. Granted it's a popular market, but I would hope the psychological benefit of knowing only 'new' problems need be addressed would be invaluable. I'll confess that I don't know if there are actually 10,000 VPN IPs available to dedicated paid shills. I suppose it depends on the money backing them.

I'm normally not for this type of behavior, but the big boys often have internal lists of VPN IPs that they block. Not sure if they share these blacklists, however.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Seems quite heavy-handed. We'd also block about 1/3 of our legitimate users probably.

Also they have very good IPv4 VPNs, so it wouldn't even help anyway.

Yes they have literally trillions of IPs, and I'm not joking or exaggerating that number. We have been building a blacklist of IPs since this site started and it hasn't slowed them one bit