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Did we collectively forget rate limiting exists or something? One bot that's just stuck on a loop or being overly aggressive is going to have one IP.
by NaturalPhallacy 5y ago
Did we collectively forget rate limiting exists or something?
One bot that's just stuck on a loop or being overly aggressive is going to have one IP.
- tick_tock_tick 5y agoThat is fair but instead of bothering to set that up I can just sign up for a free service in a hour once and just never worry about it.
- fierro 5y agoany sophisticated bots are rotating IPs or pulling from a large pool of IPs. In many cases of fraud/abuse, rate limiting based on IP doesn't work well enough.