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Instead of punishing a criminal, you make everybody pay. This is not only unfair to legitimate users having to pay. It also needs to explain what actually hap
by rufasterisco 2mo ago
Instead of punishing a criminal, you make everybody pay.
This is not only unfair to legitimate users having to pay.
It also needs to explain what actually happens when the Ddos succeeds (I know, you are talking about scrapers, but what’s the difference really?). Does that mean that the attacker just gets to shrug it off.
Don’t take my statements as facts, I just want to outline a few reason I could come up with that show a purely technical solution might not be enough.
Akin to “just use Cloudflare, it’s free”.
Yes it works but why conceding defeat and say “oh from now on you depend on a business to publish a server”?
- xena 2mo agoIf we could identify who is doing this, I bet that those people would be publicly burned at the stake by now.
- rufasterisco 2mo agoI don’t like people being burnt at stakes and what I see when I google “residential proxy” does not feel like we cannot identify. More like we are not even trying. I mean, if residential proxies are tools used to DDOS websites, why is Google advertising them? And if you have Google ads for them, can we really say “ah, if we only knew who these guys are?”.