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An interesting overview of the X-Forwarded-For header and the many reasons why it can’t be trusted. The article is full of concrete examples and insights. TL;DR: Any header not specifically set by your reverse proxy cannot be trusted.

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Of course, always remember that when yt-dlp doesn’t do what we want, YouTube are the ones to blame for that, not anyone trying to scrape it.

Speaking of scraping, the gall of this article.

I’m so embarrassed that I thought this was so deep and true when I was younger.

Details about IP address, networks, internet provider, mapping.

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