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it's hard to separate spambot that only accesses 3-5 links per IP and a legit user. Changing content for legit user can be devastating


Put a cookie wall in front. The bot will either load the cookie and have a persistent identifier, or not load the cookie and not get in

why is this not the answer? then you can also rate limit each cookie as well.

it'll load the cookie, make one request, move to a different ip, load the cookie, make one request, move to a different ip, ...



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