Operators of Internet sites have the ability to prevent traffic from Tor exit nodes or to offer reduced functionality for Tor users. ... The BBC blocks the IP addresses of all known Tor guards and exit nodes from its iPlayer service, although relays and bridges are not blocked.^[110]
The above is from the Wikipedia page for Tor. If the guard IP was "unpublished", then would that be a way to access sites like BBC iPlayer in spite of their blacklisting known guard IPs. Perhaps in the BBC case some users were trying to use Tor as a "poor man's VPN" to get a free UK IP address.
Operators of Internet sites have the ability to prevent traffic from Tor exit nodes or to offer reduced functionality for Tor users. ... The BBC blocks the IP addresses of all known Tor guards and exit nodes from its iPlayer service, although relays and bridges are not blocked.^[110]
110. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/questions/playback-issues...
The above is from the Wikipedia page for Tor. If the guard IP was "unpublished", then would that be a way to access sites like BBC iPlayer in spite of their blacklisting known guard IPs. Perhaps in the BBC case some users were trying to use Tor as a "poor man's VPN" to get a free UK IP address.