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Comment by mmarian

2 days ago

Some scrapers/scanners use residential IPs. Aren't you worried you'll end up blocking legitimate traffic?

Two points:

1. The websites I run get so little traffic it doesn't matter. They're mostly for my own entertainment / experimentation.

2. If they're allowing their IP address to be used for pricing scrapers then I consider that within the blurry definition of malicious anyway.

I don't mind if you disagree with me on point #2, and I grant that if I was running some super popular web service, maybe my tune would change.

I have four tiers of scanning paranoia, so I can ramp up and down if need be (I'm not sure if that's documented in GitHub though...)

  • Fair enough. Let me know if you end up documenting it in GitHub somewhere, I'm curious what people set up.