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Not a web server but yeah we dealt with it by black listing patterns (IPs, requests etc) from misbehaving domains. We never distinguished automations from peop

Not a web server but yeah we dealt with it by black listing patterns (IPs, requests etc) from misbehaving domains. We never distinguished automations from people though, that makes no sense on the internet.

imilk 1y ago
> We never distinguished automations from people though, that makes no sense on the internet. LOL I see you've never sold anything on the internet, ran a website that is supposed to generate leads, or had to gauge the effectiveness of an ad campaign. There is a huge part of the internet that relies on real humans doing things on websites. And ignoring that is insane.
- msgodel 1y ago
  Maybe I should clarify: It makes no sense from a system architecture perspective. Obviously if you're doing analytics you want to know the difference.
  - imilk 1y ago
    A systems architecture perspective should be very very inclusive of the business perspective.
    - msgodel 1y ago
      In theory. In practice business people have such a poor intuition for systems design you end up with borderline unusable software when you do that.
      - imilk 1y ago
        that's why systems architects are supposed to get paid well, because there are a lot of different stakeholders to consider