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454 points positiveblue | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.26s | source

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Animats ◴[29 Aug 25 21:45 UTC] No.45069763[source]▶

Are bots using a large number of IP addresses simultaneously, so they look like a DDOS attack? Or are they just making ordinary requests from a small number of addresses. If it's the latter, all you need is some kind of fair queuing so those requests compete with each other for access, not with other users.

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1. fooey ◴[30 Aug 25 01:33 UTC] No.45071164[source]▶

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They're using state of the art obfuscation that makes them indistinguishable from malicious botnets. It's an arms race with billion dollar companies vying to consume the most content before it all collapses

the open web is dead and whatever's left will be locked be authentication and paywalls

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