Comment by layer8
20 days ago
Unless a substantial portion of the internet starts serving poisoned content to bots, that won’t solve the bandwidth problem. And even if a substantial portion of the internet would start poisoning, bots would likely just shift to disguising themselves so they can’t be identified as bots anymore. Which according to the article they already do now when they are being blocked.
>even if a substantial portion of the internet would start poisoning, bots would likely just shift to disguising themselves so they can’t be identified as bots anymore.
Good questions to ask would be:
- How do they disguise themselves?
- What fundamental features do bots have that distinguish them from real users?
- Can we use poisoning in conjunction with traditional methods like a good IP block lists to remove the low hanging fruits?