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The internet is no longer a safe haven

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253 points akyuu | 1 comments | 16 Nov 25 13:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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time4tea ◴[16 Nov 25 14:58 UTC] No.45945577[source]▶
Had to ban RU, CN, SG, and KR just cos of the volume of spam. The random referer headers has recently become a problem.

This is particularly annoying as knowing where people come from is important.

Its just another reason to give up making stuff, and give in to the FAANG and the AI enshittification.

:-(

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mrweasel ◴[16 Nov 25 16:00 UTC] No.45946038[source]▶
If you only care about regular users I'd advice banning all known datacenters, Browserbase, China and Brazil.
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worthless-trash ◴[16 Nov 25 16:29 UTC] No.45946307[source]▶
I also banned the middle east, Logs actually reflected real users, cost dropped, and my mental health improved.

Win Win.

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1. mrweasel ◴[16 Nov 25 18:03 UTC] No.45947032{3}[source]▶
If you know that you don't have customers or users in the area, or very few, then go for it.

I worked in e-commerce previously, we reduce fraud to almost zero by banning non-local cards. It affected a few customers that had international credit cards, but not enough to justify dealing with the fraud. Sometimes you just need to limit your attack surface.