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It would be more accurate to say they ~try~ and block the vpn providers and Tor exit nodes. In practice, they do have ~95% of Tor exit nodes blacklisted but major vpn providers it's closer to 40%. Vpn providers go through a lot of effort to hide their exit traffic and it's pretty simple to use a provider that has a reasonably robust cli to just rotate nodes until you find one that works
Connect Test known-good video using yt-dlp If fail, use vpn cli to connect to a new node Reeat until success
If your provider let's you connect to specific nodes you can even store the last-known-good and use it on first connect until it gets blacklisted, extending uptime considerably
Just post a picture of your beard and official Autism Certificate FFS.
Jesus fuck.
I don't understand, is suggesting someone write a 7 line bash script in a Linux forum post about using a cli downloader, unreasonable?