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

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597 points classichasclass | 3 comments | 25 Aug 25 04:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.453s | source
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lwansbrough ◴[25 Aug 25 05:55 UTC] No.45010657[source]▶
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.

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sugarpimpdorsey ◴[25 Aug 25 06:18 UTC] No.45010787[source]▶
There's some weird ones you'd never think of that originate an inordinate amount of bad traffic. Like Seychelles. A tiny little island nation in the middle of the ocean inhabited by... bots apparently? Cyprus is another one.

Re: China, their cloud services seem to stretch to Singapore and beyond. I had to blacklist all of Alibaba Cloud and Tencent and the ASNs stretched well beyond PRC borders.

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johnisgood[dead post] ◴[25 Aug 25 08:27 UTC] No.45011573[source]▶
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1. Bender ◴[25 Aug 25 13:25 UTC] No.45013619[source]▶
Ignore the trolls. Also, if they are upset with you they should focus their vitriol on me. I block nearly all of BRICS especially Brazil as most are hard wired to not follow even the simplest of rules, most data-centers, some VPN's based on MSS, posting from cell phones and much more. I am always happy to give people the satisfaction of down-voting me since I use uBlock to hide karma.

In ublock -> my filters

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3. johnisgood ◴[26 Aug 25 08:10 UTC] No.45023680[source]▶
Those are nice filters, I checked out your profile too!

Thank you. :)