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Comment by spiderfarmer

21 hours ago

I'm being hit with 300 req/s 24/7 from hundreds of thousands of unique IP's from residential proxies. I can't rate limit any further without hurting the real users.

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cowboylowrez  8 hours ago

Yeah real users are just as hosed as the small sites. I get blocked simply because of the netblock I browse from.

oasisbob  21 hours ago

Yeah, IP-based rate limits are nearly ineffective these days.

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