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> it's less easy to figure out which residential IPs are part of a commercially-operated botnet Is the client navigating the site faster than humanly possible?
by SoftTalker 1y ago
> it's less easy to figure out which residential IPs are part of a commercially-operated botnet
Is the client navigating the site faster than humanly possible? It's a bot. This seems like a simple test.
> 1000 requests coming from residential ISPs around the world could be an organic surge
But probably isn't.
- Retr0id 1y ago> This seems like a simple test. Not when the singular bot has a pool of millions of IPs to originate each request from. If you think there's an easy solution here, productize it and make billions.
- SoftTalker 1y agoIPs that you've never seen before are hitting a single random page deep within your site are bots, or first-time followers of a search engine link. Grey list them and respond slowly. If they are seen again at normal human rates, unthrottle them.
- danielscrubs 1y agoAka, make the web worse for everyone. Thanks for playing.