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I see captchas all the time on my home internet connection without a VPN these days. That era seems to be ending, probably because AI scraping is now using residential IP blocks.


There's been talk on NANOG about whole residential ISPs getting marked as VPNs now. Turns out selling excessive security to businesses is easy, I guess. Like CrowdStrike.




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