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Comment by gs17

6 months ago

For reference:

> If you try to rate-limit them, they’ll just switch to other IPs all the time. If you try to block them by User Agent string, they’ll just switch to a non-bot UA string (no, really).

It's really absurd that they seem to think this is acceptable.

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viraptor  6 months ago

Block the whole ASN in that case.

therealdrag0  6 months ago

What about adding fake sleeps?

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