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Why does Uber block EC2?

• dylz 10y ago
  This is pretty standard, we block all "cloud" ranges for end-user-facing things (antifraud, etc) Bots on EC2 scraping and bruteforcing and whatnot, free tier being abused for free proxies
  • toomuchtodo 10y ago
    Good to know for future projects.
    • dylz 10y ago
      Understandably this is something you should make the correct choice for yourself, you might want to be scraped on readonly articles or public pages for things like thumbnails on reddit from EC2, but deny all `HTTPS POST /register` or something from EC2.