Can't one just list all of digital ocean's ip blocks?
Like sure then you can add in hertzer or w/e and keep adjusting but idk if somebody keeps ban dodging by using the same provider it seems like you'd just try banning that provider early on?
The trick is to use the same provider. I did it with the Expedia api for a while. At the time they were using AWS so running it on Lambda made it very tricky for them to do much about it. They were hardly about to block all AWS IP's and risk their own services or any of the "real" partners having issues.
Same sort of timeframe, a project I worked on used netwoking via mobile hotspots on a bunch of Android phones with SIMs from a provider that used CGNAT. If the target websites wanted to block that, they'd be blocking well over 10% of all mobile phones in Australia.
(Hmmm, all the devices we used then would have just stopped working with the shutdown on the 3G network here. I wonder if it's all broken, or if they've upgraded all those devices to 4/5G ones?)
Quite a few people do that. My grocery store's app and the Tesla app stop working if I bring up my vpn through DO. (I first set that up years ago because the legoland hotel's wifi was blocking reddit.)
Like sure then you can add in hertzer or w/e and keep adjusting but idk if somebody keeps ban dodging by using the same provider it seems like you'd just try banning that provider early on?