Comment by 72deluxe
8 hours ago
Could you not also use an ASN list like https://github.com/brianhama/bad-asn-list and add blocks of IPs to a blocklist (eg. ipset on Linux)? Most of the scripty traffic comes from VPSs.
8 hours ago
Could you not also use an ASN list like https://github.com/brianhama/bad-asn-list and add blocks of IPs to a blocklist (eg. ipset on Linux)? Most of the scripty traffic comes from VPSs.
Thanks to widespread botnets, most scrapers fall back to using "residential proxies" the moment you block their cloud addresses. Same load, but now you risk accidentally blocking customers coming from similar net blocks.
Blocking ASNs is one step of the fight, but unfortunately it's not the solution.
Hypothetically, as a cyber-criminal, I'd like to thank the blacklist industry for bringing so much money into criminal enterprises by making residential proxies mandatory for all scraping.