This happened to me before. They unbanned and rebanned me like twice, the IT guy emailing back was very sure I was using “scripts” of some kind that were harming the website, somehow. Ultimately I just stopped visiting KYM.
I never knew knowyourmeme did ip bans.
I wonder what you didHere’s the email I sent them:
Greetings,
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.
Thanks for your time,
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
Not only that, but they use device bans as well, so even if you switch to an unbanned IP they can still detect if you’re on the same device you were first banned on, and ban you again for ban evasion.
This one time I got banned from world news for disagreeing with one of the more conservative posts there, and I wasn’t even impolite about it. Months later I accidentally commented on world news again using an alt account, as I had forgotten about the ban. So then I got permanently banned from reddit itself, and every time I tried to make a new account it got banned for ban evasion. I was only able to make a new account and keep it for more than 24 hours when some time later I changed my IP and bought a new phone.
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.
this is how I manage blocks. Temporary bans unless it’s a repeat offender.
I’m betting you’re leaving something out. did you show someone your testicles?
maybe he thought it was knowyourtesties.com
Oh look, the site finally dropped.
I was recently reading some Wikipedia article on my phone and when I was scrolling I accidentally hit a button to edit it and was greeted by a message that my IP was banned from editing for the next 10 months.
I haven’t even attempted to edit Wikipedia in probably 20 years. Admittedly last time I did I was probably about 14 years old, and it may have been some juvenile vandalism, but somehow I don’t think that they managed to trace me from a computer in my high school library to my current cell phone, or that anything I did warranted a 21 year ban
So obviously it’s because phones using cellular Internet go through IP addresses only slightly less often than most people breathe.
It feels like that sort of IP ban really isn’t particularly useful. The vandals probably aren’t usually on that address and most of the time it’s getting used by random people who probably don’t even think about editing Wikipedia.
IP Bans are usually pointless. Not all ISPs give a connection a static IP or even solely an IP (DSlite). The reason is they don’t want private people hosting stuff and generating more traffic and they can charge you more. My ISP (Vodafone Cable in Germany) didn’t even gave me an IPv4 to use (it’s called DSlite/Dual stack lite), meaning I was behind a NAT on their end and many shared that IP. I did ask them nicely if I could get a real IPv4 for certain stuff and they gave it to me, but only when I book the upload boost for 5€ + a month. It’s not static but it only changes when my router is disconnected for a long time (I don’t know the exact time but at least several hours up to an day).
So usually an IP ban makes only sense for a limited time or specific ranges from companies (for example VPNs or hosting services that don’t care who books their service).
Shared IPv4 addresses are not to deter hosting but because there aren’t enough v4 addresses to go around. Most ISPs will happily give you an entire block of persistent IPv6 addresses but won’t give you a v4 because of address space exhaustion.
I kinda worded it wrong. Some ISPs do give out full IPv4 addresses but do rotate them, because they can and do charge more for static IPs. This doesn’t have something to do with a lack of v4 addresses. Only DSlite has something to do with the lack of v4 addresses.
IP bans are something you should resort to when it’s literally that or your servers choke to death on botnet spam
Are you using a VPN?
Many websites block known VPN IPs as a ham-fisted security measure.
One of my IP addresses was banned too! But I’m using a VPN, so I just clicked a button to get a new one.
I do have a VPN, but they are blocking my complex’s IP address here.
…try using your VPN to access the resource.
I can access it over my VPN. I was mostly surprised that KYM would use an IP ban, and the wording of the notice was amusing.
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