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Can you conceive of an alternate way to score traffic on the Internet? What might that be?
by josh2600 11y ago
Can you conceive of an alternate way to score traffic on the Internet? What might that be?
- AnthonyMouse 11y agoSo there are two problems here, right? Spam and DoS. Comment spam isn't a CloudFlare-level problem. If sites want to allow anonymous comments then they get the consequences of anonymous comments (or have their own CAPTCHA for them); if they want to require account registration and some vouching or proof of work or payment to get an account then they can have that as well. DoS is a CloudFlare problem, but you don't need historical IP reputation for that, you only need what that IP address is doing right now.
- ascorbic 11y agoComment spam is one of the things CloudFlare advertise as protecting sites from, so yes it is their problem.
- AnthonyMouse 11y agoIt's only their problem because they chose to claim they could solve it when their solution is the one that causes all of this trouble. They're not in a position to do it accurately.
- lqdc13 11y agoThere are a million ways. Order of requests for that IP in the last n minutes, timing of requests, request headers order, type of content requested, captcha content timings, specific-for-site content requested, etc
- jamespo 11y agoNone of those sound particularly effective
- tracker1 11y agoNot without decreasing anonymity...