I’m trying to understand the bot problem in the internet and finding more ways to defend myself. One thing that I can’t seem to understand is why most bots, scrapers and crawlers seem to have residential IPs.
- Is it that ISPs are being paid by tech-bros to assign them these IPs?
- Is it that residential devices have been hacked /contain malware that does this?
- Is it trivial for companies to assign themselves residential IPs?
- Paid volunteers are doing this for AI companies?
Or is there is some other reason for this?
Obviously this is a problem because one can rotate / cycle through residential IPs and if I aggressively block each offender in my logs permanently, then the next person assigned this IP who may be a legitimate user will be unable to access my site.
Not the ISPs problem at all.
Blame IoT manufacturers for providing shit devices that can easily be hacked.
Theere is no difference from a technical standpoint between a business and residential IP. It’s allocation is tied to the network provider.
People install extensions onto browsers for any number of reasons without knowing what it does. It was a problem is the 90s that never went away.