How NOT to detect residential proxies

(blog.truesign.ai)

20 points | by kanokano 4 hours ago ago

9 comments

  • glintor 4 hours ago

    I wonder if it's related: for the last weeks I'm getting "you've been blocked" screens when visiting random websites. Is there a way to know if my IP made it to one of those blacklists?

    • bytehunter 3 hours ago

      you can check you own IP at abuseipdb.com

    • buakaw_ 3 hours ago

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  • jortizzz 2 hours ago

    agree with the ending part of the post: it's important to avoid shared IPs causing wrong classifications, but even more important you can't really block people for using proxies. What matters is the big picture at the site traffic's level

    • kanokano 2 hours ago

      that may be true in some cases, but I run a small site that gives free credits to new accounts and I get lots of fake and abusing accounts created with the VPN + fake email combo. I know because when I look up the IP it's always a datacenter or hosting range.

  • jamesolo 3 hours ago

    the demo is nice but I can't find details on how it does it internally?

    • hakanil 3 hours ago

      There's decent literature on proxy/vpn detection by network and timing analysis. But I have the impression it's based on the inspection an ISP or MitM is able to do, not really the receiver of a request AFTER it goes out of the proxy node.

    • nalook 3 hours ago

      they mention network analysis, packet timings and format. Not sure how reliable that is

  • tangge 3 hours ago

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