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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Btw, how about limiting clicks per second/minute, against distributed scraping? A user who clicks more than 3 links per second is not a person. Neither, if they do 50 in a minute. And if they are then blocked and switch to the next, it's still limited in bandwith they can occupy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

They make one request per IP. Rate limit per IP does nothing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Ah, one request, then the next IP doing one and so on, rotating? I mean, they don't have unlimited adresses. Is there no way to group them together to a observable group, to set quotas? I mean, in the purpose of defense against AI-DDOS and not just for hurting them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

There's always Anubis 🤷

Anyway, what if they are backed by some big Chinese corporation with some /32 ipv6 and some /16 ipv4? It's not that unreasonable

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

No, I don't think blocking IP ranges will be effective (except in very specific scenarios). See this comment referencing a blog post about this happening and the traffic was coming from a variety of residential IP allocations. https://lemm.ee/comment/20684186

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I click links frequently and I'm not a web crawler. Example: get search results, open several likely looking possibilities (only takes a few seconds), then look through each one for a reasonable understanding of the subject that isn't limited to one person's bias and/or mistakes. It's not just search results; I do this on Lemmy too, and when I'm shopping.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Ok, same, make it 5 or 10. Since i use Tree Style Tabs and Auto Tab Discard, i do get a temporary block in some webshops, if i load (not just open) too much tabs in too short time. Probably a CDN thing.