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Comment by snehesht

20 hours ago

You wouldn’t permanently block them, it’s more like a rolling window.

You can use security challenges as a mechanism to identify false positives.

Sure bots can get tons of proxies for cheap, doesn’t mean you can’t block them similar to how SSH Honeypots or Spamhaus SBL work albeit temporarily.

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