I have been informed by your charming and informative page that my IP address, 208.67.[redacted] has been banned. I live in an apartment complex with a complex provided network for internet. It is due to these unfortunate circumstances that I share an IP address with an individual which has behaved in a way deemed worthy of IP ban.
Please consider unbanning this IP address as it is shared by a minimum of 192 tenants.
Yeah, banning by IP from such a big website is pretty silly on the site admin’s part. Tons and tons of places share 1 to a small handful of IPs (e.g. apartment complexes, school dorms, etc).
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Here’s the email I sent them:
You have a good use case for a VPN.
Yeah, banning by IP from such a big website is pretty silly on the site admin’s part. Tons and tons of places share 1 to a small handful of IPs (e.g. apartment complexes, school dorms, etc).
Reddit still uses IP bans. It’s crazy how far behind the times some tech companies are
And also a huge issue for anyone using a VPN to browse the web
Also, most people don’t even have a static ip address so they might have banned a different location altogether and the banned ip address moved.
And it’s still not worth the money and a lot easier to simply temp-ban via IP.