> All that said, it's trivial to use proxies or VPNs to bypass any blocks.
Maybe for you sure. The large drove of people flocking to serverless these days suggests that even most technical people don't want anything to do with their own networking or infrastructure.
Proxy selling is a successful business (access on the order of 10 million residential IP addresses for on the order of $100 per month), and they don't say how they get access to those. Probably, the more people block access to non-residential IP addresses, the more money botnet vendors make.
At least among the "ethical" ones, my understanding is that it's freeware that has been packaged with proxy access (presumably disclosed to the end user, but that's a matter of interpretation)
Maybe for you sure. The large drove of people flocking to serverless these days suggests that even most technical people don't want anything to do with their own networking or infrastructure.