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This reads like an ad. There are much better ways to deal with bots than to let Cloudflare further bifurcate the Internet.
by johnklos 3y ago
This reads like an ad.
There are much better ways to deal with bots than to let Cloudflare further bifurcate the Internet.
- varun_chopra 3y ago> There are much better ways to deal with bots Such as?
- johnklos 3y agoFor something like this service, simple rate limiting per IP / netblock, along with TCP/IP fingerprinting for VPN endpoints and such, could be very effective. I run histograms for connections per netblock on my email servers, and even removing only the most egregious attempts at abuse almost empties my logs. On the other hand, Cloudflare has issues with tons of less popular networks, with VPNs, with less affluent countries, with non-mainstream OSes and browsers, et cetera, all of which ends up punishing many people in ways that are completely disproportionate to the amount of abuse avoided. It reminds me of the quote from fortune(6): As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error. -- Weisert You don't know how many people Cloudflare has marginalized because you don't see their visits.
- thiht 3y ago> There are much better ways to deal with bots I'm interested, do you have some resources to share?
- johnklos 3y agoSee https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37425473 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37425473 It's just referencing an example, but creating usable tools really isn't hard.