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Interesting that apparently this is a problem, I would have thought that spam filtering is completely outsourceable by now. Doesn’t CloudFlare have good bot de
by stingraycharles 4y ago
Interesting that apparently this is a problem, I would have thought that spam filtering is completely outsourceable by now.
Doesn’t CloudFlare have good bot detection? What does HN do that relies on IP addresses that CloudFlare can’t do?
- londons_explore 4y agoHN can do things like "This user is posting from an IP which geolocates far from where it normally posts from". It can take into account the total post history, user upvotes, etc. Cloudflare bot detection is more request-by-request. Cloudflares product is more intended to prevent DDoS attacks with millions of bots. I don't think it's sufficiently fine tuned to prevent a handful of spam comments through.
- jimcavel888 4y ago[dead]