GTOP has blocked VPN and Proxy IPs

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    Disclaimer: I am not a vote abuser.

    Now they have done it. I believe this is a new thing. As my ISP gives me a NAT connection which often the IP address has already been used for voting (my ISP does IP sharing so aggressively that I have a friend who lives 5KM away has exactly the same public IP as mine) as well as causing other nuisance for services which check IP addresses. So I have set up my own private VPS VPN to have a cleaner IP address. I was able to vote with my private VPN up till yesterday.

    If this is the case, I could see a sharp decline of vote abusers and a possible increase for the cost of APR in the near future.

    However, I also have to rant about IP addresses. As more and more ISPs are giving out NAT connections, services should stop relying on checking IP, this includes GTOP and the IP banning here. There are more a more players are getting blocked from the game due to ISP recycling IP addresses. Although it will be just a matter of bad luck, the situation will just get worse and worse.

    And talking fairness for punishing vote abusers because they paid VPN services for additional IPs, I think it is also unfair if your ISP gives you a direct public IP, as for my ISP to achieve this, they could only provide a static IP package which I also have to pay extra. That's why I would rather have a VPS as it can do much more interesting stuffs.


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    Same problem here, couldn't vote these days.
    My ISP provide a shared public IP, so I can only use VPN to vote, and now it blocked... :(

    Do you find any solution?
     
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    It seems now that you will get more success without using incognito mode.

    Vote at immediately after 00:00 UTC, use mobile data, turn on airplane mode and off (to refresh IP) then vote normally in normal browsing mode.
     

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