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1. Joker_vD · 1791018431 · focus · HN ↗

   Hm. Interesting. I wonder how you would add "banning abusers by IP" functionality to it though — you first need to identify the abuse somehow and then link it to the originating IP (or any other kind of identifier)...

   1. someonebaggy · 1791031815 · focus · HN ↗

      You already can't do that since the abuser will just buy residential proxies.

      1. Joker_vD · 1791034746 · focus · HN ↗

         At my previous job we routinely gave out IP-based bans, and it worked pretty well; the most insistent guys gave up after their third or fourth IP banned at most.

         1. someonebaggy · 1791039184 · focus · HN ↗

            I have a public facing website that is blocking about 500 obviously botted requests per second. About half are from residential proxies.

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