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The bigger question. Why do we treat bot visits differently. Automated submissions or manual have the same rate limiting controls that prevent more submissio
by wolco 8y ago
The bigger question. Why do we treat bot visits differently. Automated submissions or manual have the same rate limiting controls that prevent more submissions than expected. The content of a form shouldn't be acceptable or not based on who sent it (human or machine) there needs to be another verification process against the data submitted to expected/acceptable values.
Why couldn't a bot purchase a droplet or shoes. As a saler I would be happy to sell to them. Purchases would be quicker and less wasted resources with humans browsing the same product pages for months before buying.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Why do we treat bot visits differently. Because bots are used in multitarget and multisource spam attacks that humans can’t do efficiently; rate limiting on any particular target site, particularly for submissions from a particular source, cannot prevent such attacks.