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I can't understand that at all. If they are able to identify a real threat, they understand more about their users than their IP address. Blocking IPs is a brutal and lazy way to deal with an imaginary threat. I they are truly that paranoid, they should do what Reddit does: Ban everybody.
DDoS/spam/malware/hacking from tor and/or known VPN providers is not an imaginary threat. Many companies and websites block it entirely. This is not new, imaginary or lazy.
Yes, it is lazy to block all of Tor because a few bad actors come from it.
That's like blocking all emails from Nigeria just because some spammera live there.
It's not a few, it's many gigabits per second.
That's a few users. Temp block them when they do something malicious. Don't wholesale block someone just for making a simple GET request from an IP on Tor that hasn't done anything malicious.
Tor DDoS attacks have been ongoing for years now.
Right, so temp block the bad IPs 24 hours.
Don't block an entire network just because there's a few bad actors.