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> What is the benefit? Reduce spam and abuse

• _8j50 4y ago
  Like i said, for making changes I get it. I just want to read a debian specific wiki. They block archive.is too. You can .htaccess block specific pages for form submit action. I tolerate excessive captcha for every other site as well.
  • trinovantes 4y ago
    I guess whatever spam control system they use is simply blocking all VPNs rather than more fine grained check if the request is for read/write
    • _8j50 4y ago
      Captchas are a more acceptable solution if they can't make it more granular. Perhaps they object to captchas because foss vs proprietary third party?
      • hulitu 4y ago
        Capchas are bad. It will trow users away.
        • _8j50 4y ago
          They are not any worse than a 403 page?
  • seanhunter 4y ago
    A .htaccess block doesn’t help if you’re trying to mitigate ddos attacks. Your server still has to expend quite a lot of resources to do htaccess checking vs an ip firewall block is just one hashtable lookup at kernel level.
    • _8j50 4y ago
      They are giving a 403 which looks a lot like .htaccess. You can't do a whole lot of DDosing from a VPN IP either due to data cap and connection count limits per account.