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We need to start doing web blocking for non-technical reasons

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57 points birdculture | 3 comments | 23 Oct 25 13:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.44s | source
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1970-01-01 ◴[23 Oct 25 15:36 UTC] No.45683083[source]▶
Blocking bots would solve 98% of the problem. We need something that does just that and only that. Once traffic becomes natural again, we can rethink the abuse problem. Charging per click or even per MB sent is an excellent idea that nobody will ever support. I wonder if that is even technically possible.
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1. ErigmolCt ◴[23 Oct 25 17:59 UTC] No.45684832[source]▶
Sooo make bad behavior costly instead of just annoying
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2. dredmorbius ◴[23 Oct 25 18:21 UTC] No.45685065[source]▶
This is still predicated on correctly identifying "bad behaviour". Given distributed attacks and botnets (often utilising residental / "dial-up" equipment, whether desktops, routers, or IoT (the "S" stands for "security") kit), identifying specific network spaces as hostile still posits a great deal of collateral damage / false positive error.

Mind, I'm strongly in favour of what you're advocating, in theory. And I'm well aware that failing to accomplish this will make the Web far less useful for everyone. But the fundamental challenge remains difficult.

3. DengistKhan ◴[23 Oct 25 19:43 UTC] No.45686086[source]▶
A lot of schemes I've seen proposed for this end up setting up a dollar amount spammers may choose to pay while pricing out most normal people.