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What a Dirty IP Is and Why It Breaks Everything

You can build a flawless Reality, polish every field in the config — and still catch captchas, "VPN detected," and a bank block. Not because the protocol is bad, but because the IP address itself arrives at the service already carrying a bad reputation. Let's unpack where it comes from and why this is a problem separate from the protocol.

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Protocol and reputation are two different wars

People confuse two things. The first — DPI sees you at the border: there you fight with masking, Reality, transports. The second — the end service the client connected to sees you: ChatGPT, a bank, a marketplace. And the second one couldn't care less how beautifully you masked the handshake. It looks at one single fact — which address the request came from and what's known about that address.

I've caught this in practice many times: one node in Germany opens everything, while…

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