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

We solved a lot of our problems by blocking all Chinese ASNs. Admittedly, not the friendliest solution, but there were so many issues originating from Chinese clients that it was easier to just ban the entire country.

It's not like we can capitalize on commerce in China anyway, so I think it's a fairly pragmatic approach.

Why stop there? Just block all non-US IPs!

If it works for my health insurance company, essentially all streaming services (including not even being able to cancel service from abroad), and many banks, it’ll work for you as well.

Surely bad actors wouldn’t use VPNs or botnets, and your customers never travel abroad?

I'm not precisely sure the point you're trying to make.

In my experience running rather lowish traffic(thousands hits a day) sites, doing just that brought every single annoyance from thousands per day to zero.

Yes, people -can- easily get around it via various listed methods, but don't seem to actually do that unless you're a high value target.

It definitely works, since you’re externalizing your annoyance to people you literally won’t ever hear from because you blanket banned them based. Most of them will just think your site is broken.