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If they actually cared, they would just block VPNs. Valve does this when you try to create an account.


If we're talking about state funding, that's not a problem. You just send a national to live in a residential area and then a team can proxy through that connection.


Commercial VPNs are relatively easy to block, because they use known IP ranges that companies can blacklist. But it's trivial to set up a private VPN with unique IPs such that VPN blocking becomes much less straightforward and much more resource intensive, for example by using traffic pattern analysis or behavioral fingerprinting.




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