Comment by thephyber

1 year ago

> with no technical understanding

WTF?

Building a WAF that has zero false positives and zero false negatives is impossible. All we can ask is that the companies that build WAFs be responsive, but they also need accurate bug reports with sufficient information to identify the variable.

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csomar  1 year ago

I don't think you understood the parent.

> Designing a site to not be affected by bots is fixing the problem.

Bots footprint is minimal and shouldn't affect your site performance.

  • andsoitis  1 year ago

    Bots have negative impacts beyond potential performance impact:

    - scraping & content theft

    - spam & fake engagement

    - DDoS attacks

    - Ad fraud