How do I find out what IPs to give, my IP doesnt stay the same? The local IP is hardly the one they want, it wouldnt make sense I think.

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    9 days ago

    why would one do either? By whitelisting you entirely prevent traffic. API auth takes processing. How wrong is it? Maybe for your home usage it’s good enough but layering measures has value…

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      9 days ago

      It means you’re doing boutique instead of scalable, and/or they don’t know how to deal with the traffic and auth infrastructure

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        8 days ago

        scalable has cost and you only want to engage costs when it comes with benefits. Preventing non legitimate traffic is complementary to scalability. Just don’t pay for illegitimate traffic…