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This sounds backwards to me, if you maintain a list of IPs but they are constantly cycling them, it'll get out of date quickly, but a captcha-like system will (
by voidUpdate 2y ago
This sounds backwards to me, if you maintain a list of IPs but they are constantly cycling them, it'll get out of date quickly, but a captcha-like system will (hopefully) always stop bot traffic
- nzeid 2y agoOnly if your CAPTCHA-like is hurled at every client indiscriminately. Otherwise you'll end up right back where Spamhaus started: maintaining your own list of good and bad actors. The advantage of a third party service is that you're sharing intel of bad actors.
- voidUpdate 2y agoI can't confirm but I believe it is applied to every client
- pavon 2y agoWhile some of the residential IPs are from malware, a lot of it is from residential IP proxies, where people are paid to run proxy software from their home. If it starts getting around that people who run this software quickly become blocked by the majority of the internet that will lessen that part of the problem.