Comment by alightsoul
2 months ago
Wikipedia maintains a quite exhaustive list of them to prevent spam and they also block vpn IPs as soon as they're found.
2 months ago
Wikipedia maintains a quite exhaustive list of them to prevent spam and they also block vpn IPs as soon as they're found.
That is an entirely different matter. They only block (AFAIK) editing which is a scenario where PoW would not be expected to solve the problem. What I was talking about here is IP banning as a (boneheaded) mitigation against high volume scrapers.