• kevincox@lemmy.ml
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      “Residential IPs” are quite valuable for web scraping. Many scraping prevention tools and services use the source IP as the primary metric. If you come from a public cloud provider like AWS, GCP or DigitalOcean you get blocked 99% of the time. If you come from a US residential ISP then you get much more relaxed screening.

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      Someone who is planning to commit crime could do so from your home IP address. At best, the police/FBI recognize that you didn’t do the crime. At worst, you get charged for something you didn’t do.