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>One is that they ofter change IP addresses during a single web session. Second, if IP come from the same proxies provider, they are often concentrated within a sing ASN, making them easier to detect.

Both are pretty easy to mitigate with a geoip database and some smart routing. One "residential proxy" vendor even has session tokens so your source IP doesn't randomly jump between each request.




And this is the exact reason why IP addresses cannot be considered as the one and only signal for fraud prevention.




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