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Comment by q3k

6 hours ago

That sounds like an app-level (D)DoS, which is generally something you can mitigate yourself.

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geerlingguy  5 hours ago

It's harder when it's a new group of IPs and happens 2-3x every month.

  • herbst  4 hours ago

    And if you do rule based blocking they just change their approach. I am constantly blocking big corps these days, barely any work with normal bad actors.

    And lots of real users time wasted for captchas.

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