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I've got enough problems on my sites from Tor that I simply block T1 (Cloudflare's "country" code for Tor users) on their settings. Blocking whole countries use
by slig 8y ago
I've got enough problems on my sites from Tor that I simply block T1 (Cloudflare's "country" code for Tor users) on their settings. Blocking whole countries used to be a Enterprise only feature, but now it's available to Pro users.
- ofrzeta 8y agoWhat problems do you have?
- amyjess 8y agoNot GP, but my guess is ban evasion. Someone gets banned from bad behavior, they create a new account. So you IP ban them. Then they switch over to Tor and keep making new accounts from anonymized IPs and start disrupting the forum by spamming it with slurs. The only solution is to ban Tor.
- falcolas 8y agoOr, you know, limit the ability of newly created user to spam forums. Or put them on "must be reviewed" lists. Or... The easiest solution is to ban Tor, but it's far from the only solution.
- user5994461 8y agoIt's the most effective solution, not just the easiest.
- wild_preference 8y agoAll of those may entail much, much more work than banning Tor. I can think of plenty of cool, robust systems I can build as well, but I do not have unlimited resources.
- megous 8y agoThen they go an get a list of countless http or socks proxies and the solution is to...?
- slig 8y agoSomehow a crazy person decided that I was cheating on Google's SERP using "hacked routers" (?) and started to make random queries to my "/search" endpoint, dozens of "POST newsletter/add" with fake emails per second, and other really lame attempts to get on my nerve and cause downtime.
- judge2020 8y agoNote: Allowing non-enterprise to block countries was a bug, see https://community.cloudflare.com/t/code-10016/28039/13?u=judge https://community.cloudflare.com/t/code-10016/28039/13?u=jud...
- slig 8y agoThanks, I didn't know that until now.