can you use a web host as a vpn? : vpn@lemmy.world

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[–] breb@piefed.social [S] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

do you know if vps are usually considered bots under the eye of websites such as yt?

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[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Depends if the subnet or ASN is on a bot list.

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[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

I usually see more captchas when going through my VPS. That's probably because it's not a residential IP address. Youtube has gotten really picky lately, they will probably make you sign in after watching a couple of videos.

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[–] sandwichsaregood@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago*

Many of the common ones are considered automatically suspicious by a lot of sites, though not necessarily fully blocked. Especially cheaper ones. Expect lots of Cloudflare captchas.

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[–] schwim@piefed.zip 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you mean do you get caught up in the common VPN blocking often found with cloudflair, etc, no, as all of those protection systems are using IP blocklists that popular VPN exit IPs get caught up in since almost all of the popular VPN companies are using the same networks for their traffic.

Setting up your VPN on a host with a dedicated IP would keep you from being flagged as malicious traffic.

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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 year ago

The IP is only part of it. It depends on the site owners config, but usually they just send ppl with suspicious IPs or weird SSL handshakes through a "JS challange". That means you get a site "checking your browser" or so, that uses some maybe invisible JS things like painting in a canvas, that most bots can't do. If that diesn't satisfy them 100%, you may get that checkbox that launches extra checks.

Only, if the site owner was ignorant, they may have decided to block your IP range directly. I'm working at a company where some of our customers actually blocked all russuian IPs completely, because they get a lot of attacks from there and can't trade with them anyway, due to the sanctions. Another customer blocked China completely. But those are exceptional, because most don't want native customers on vacation to get caught up in the block and therefore just use the challange.

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[–] breb@piefed.social [S] 1 point 1 year ago

yeah that's why i suppose. Why im gonna use a webhost as vpn. I assume webhosting ip is not blocked as none uses them as a client I hope it doesn't give me problems