I'm in the same boat: for example yelp.com and TDBank North are blocking us.
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 2:30 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com>wrote: > It seems that at least two 'normal' online store websites that I visit > from time to time have apparently decided to block my IP address which I > am also using for a non-exit Tor relay. I have had extended discussions > with one of them and they considered unblocking my IP address to be a > risk greater than the lost income (US $160/year revenue) was worth. > They suggested switching to a different IP address, which was like > pulling hens' teeth from my ISP. To do that, I had to have a technician > visit my house and install a new modem because they do not have a person > who understands tech talk available for ordinary users, and I couldn't > get sufficiently elevated in their support hierarchy. The supposedly > dynamic IP address that I get from them hardly ever changes, probably > because I am buying U-verse television service from them. > Now, after a couple of months, the "new" IP address is also blocked. > > My question is this. What if it becomes common practice for commercial > entities such as online stores to block all IP addresses that they find > on lists of Tor relays such as <https://www.dan.me.uk/tornodes> or the > official Tor metrics data? > That list is updated every half hour, includes all nodes, and is not > limited to exit nodes. It currently lists 4438 nodes. That is a > manageable size for a blacklist, but it could represent tens or hundreds > of thousands of clients. > > Wouldn't this eventually either cripple the Tor network or generally > discourage Tor clients that can no longer buy products online from store > XYZ through the Tor network? > > David C > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays >
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