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Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me

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597 points classichasclass | 2 comments | 25 Aug 25 04:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.578s | source
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yumraj ◴[25 Aug 25 07:26 UTC] No.45011231[source]▶
Wouldn't it be better, if there's an easy way, to just feed such bots shit data instead of blocking them. I know it's easier to block and saves compute and bandwidth, but perhaps feeding them shit data at scale would be a much better longer term solution.
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1. sotspecatcle ◴[25 Aug 25 07:36 UTC] No.45011290[source]▶

    if ($http_user_agent ~* "BadBot") {
        limit_rate 1k;
        default_type application/octet-stream;
        proxy_buffering off;
        alias /dev/zero;
        return 200;
    }
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2. Avamander ◴[26 Aug 25 12:02 UTC] No.45025352[source]▶
I recommend you use gzip_static and serve a zip-bomb instead. Frees up the connection sooner and probably causes bad crawlers to exhaust their resources.