tl;dr - Patreon deleted my page, refused to elaborate, and Catbox is now short $1,300~ in reoccurring income to pay the bill. Support Catbox Here

I use catbox to post videos and moving webp files to lemmy 😭

edit: to be clear I’m not affiliated with catbox, i just shared

  • hisao@ani.socialEnglish
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    1 day ago

    My understanding is that it’s for tracking/reporting purposes, and to mitigate future offenses by banning those IPs. You can report an IP to an ISP for CSAM violations, but it’s not as useful when the user’s on a VPN.

    Don’t think even the most extreme actors go that far, link could be opened accidentally, etc…

    Anyway, from what another poster here linked, it looks like Catbox might actually not be banning any VPNs at all on its own, this might be some kind of middleware/routing infrastructure issue.