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This makes me a little sad. There's an ideal built into the Internet, that it has no borders, that individuals around the world can connect directly. Blocking
by krupan 11mo ago
This makes me a little sad. There's an ideal built into the Internet, that it has no borders, that individuals around the world can connect directly. Blocking an entire geographic region because of a few bad actors kills that. I see why it's done, but it's unfortunate
- FabCH 11mo agoI know what you mean. But the numbers don't lie. In my case, I locked down to a fairly small group of European countries and the server went down from about 1500 bot scans per day down to 0. The tradeoff is just too big to ignore.
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- BobaFloutist 11mo agoIt's not because of a few bad actors, it's because of a hostile or incompetent government. Every country has (at the very least) a few bad actors, it's a small handful of countries that actively protect their bad actors from any sort of accountability or identification.
- victorbjorklund 11mo agoTo be fair most of my bad traffic is from the US.
- BobaFloutist 11mo agoI mean if that's the case, the conversation obviously changes.
- halJordan 11mo agoYou can't make the argument that it's a small group of bad actors. It's quite a massive group of unrelentingly malicious actors
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 11mo agoMassive in terms of money and power, small in terms of souls
- tkfoss 11mo agoI read it as small compared to total population affected by the block
- anon7000 11mo agoBut that’s not the case either. A large attack or scrape generates far more traffic than legitimate users.