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Comment by Aachen

1 year ago

> The attacker was using residential proxies and making about 8 requests before cycling to a new IP.

So how is Cloudflare supposed to distinguish legitimate new visitors from new attack IPs if you can't?

Because it matches my experience as a cloudflare user perfectly if the answer were "they can't"

Captcha/challenges and tracking users/IP rep across the web

They also do IP and request risk scores using massive piles of data they've collected