Yup, a few years ago Netflix blocked all VPN Provider IPs and all Tor IPs including middle and guards … they completely ignored that guards / middle could not send traffic to Netflix. After all someone at Netflix read the TLDR about Tor and changed it.
> On 26. Nov 2018, at 21:55, [email protected] wrote: > > >> On Nov 25, 2018, at 10:10, [email protected] wrote: >> >> If an IP is not on Spamhaus and not on Barracuda it >> should have no problem obtaining a decent reputation. > > Not too many years back, I had a non-exit relay on the same IP address I use > for my general home WiFi network. Mail reputation didn't seem to be affected, > but I found that I was blacklisted by a number of media companies. I don't > remember which ones, exactly, but services like Hulu and Netflix started > giving me error messages to the effect that I was in a geographic region they > didn't support (California, US). When I'd call customer support, they'd just > deny that there was any problem and blame my ISP. It took quite a bit of > sleuthing to figure out that the companies simply block any Tor-associated IP > addresses. > > The impression I get is that it's deliberate and purely punitive. They see > Tor as a service that might affect their bottom line (by facilitating piracy > and/or getting around geographic restrictions), so they do anything they can > to punish people who support it. They know perfectly well that a non-exit > relay can't be used to bypass geographic restrictions, but they block them > anyway out of arrogance. > > I moved my relay to a different IP and over the span of a month or two the > blocking stopped. > > All of which is to say that there are certainly companies out there that > *will* attack you for running a middle node. > > --Ron > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
