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Comment by gruez

16 hours ago

>There are plenty of people demonstrating that Anubis reduces bot traffic.

"Anubis reduces bot traffic" and "[the proof of work] is not stopping anyone" isn't contradictory, especially if anubis isn't being benchmarked against non-POW alternatives like IP/ASN bans, or tls fingerprinting.

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wiredfool  1 hour ago

IP blocks don't work, because they're using proxy networks so that you see an ip address 1 or 2 times within 10 minutes. They have effectively infinite ip addresses. (actually, looking at my data from today, I think this relationship holds over ~3 hours, where we're seeing ip address cardinality at about 1/2 of the hits.)

  * Sometimes there's a pattern to the country. Oftentimes, not. 
  * User-agent, rotated between common, valid, current web browsers.
  * Other headers, sec-*, accept, etc, generally valid and rotating. 
  * Bots will load the site to saturation in a denial of wallet attack.

The only thing that's specific is:

  * urls have a pattern.
  * it's obviously invalid traffic.

(non-bot traffic on my sites does not go from 0 to 200r/sec on the search interface in seconds. It does not go away that fast either)

Jtariiiii  16 hours ago

"it's not stopping anyone" and "it is stopping some people" are mutually exclusive statements.

  • gruez  16 hours ago

    You're selectively quoting the comment. It's clearly talking about the PoW aspect not being a serious impediment.