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Because it doesn’t solve the problem of residential botnets.
by dcrazy 5mo ago
Because it doesn’t solve the problem of residential botnets.
- dotancohen 5mo agoNeither does fingerprinting.
- dcrazy 4mo agoThe goal of Cloudflare’s fingerprinting is to detect whether a user agent appears to be a legitimate human. It’s not to identify human users across websites.
- zzo38computer 4mo agoThat is not a good excuse for requiring overly complicated and overly specific software.
- dcrazy 4mo agoEvery HN thread is full of people who think webmasters should just pay through the nose to handle bot traffic to preserve the sacred rights of turbonerds to visit their website using Lynx on their toaster.
- zzo38computer 4mo agoI should think that there should be a better way (e.g. port knocking, instructions for manually correcting the URL that cannot easily be automated, additionally supporting alternative protocols, etc).
- brookst 4mo agoSounds great. Link us to your project?
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- Catloafdev 4mo agoIt actually is. And to think it's not, means you don't understand what the benefit is. Just because you've never been in a situation to care about the benefit they are offering, does not mean it's not valuable. And the position "you need a good excuse to have overly specific software" is extremely strange.
- Velocifyer 5mo agoThe botnet operators will be incentivized to mine bitcoin instead of whatever they are doing.
- GoblinSlayer 4mo agoWhy not? PoW challenge doesn't whitelist botnets. If the dumb scraper makes only get requests and doesn't solve the challenge, it doesn't matter how it connects, even if it's a perfectly hidden tor exit node.
- brookst 4mo agoBecause the work would be done by the compromised residential device. No bothnet owner is going to care if their 100,000 rooted routers have to do a little more work. It’s still “free” from their perspective.
- GoblinSlayer 4mo agoIf botnet owner allows RCE, the botnet will just change the owner.