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Same problem we've been having for ages.

Using shared ip banlists is the best solution so far, like cloudflare. Sure maybe they hit your server for 5 seconds and then desist, but they'll attack someone else, and they'll eventually rotate.

I'm not sure if Anubis has a feature for centralized banlists, but I'm assuming since it's OS and privacy oriented, there isn't.

There's a tradeoff between privacy and abuse, you want privacy? You get abuse, you want to battle abuse? Gotta sacrifice privacy. Worth noting that unmarked vpn users (residential proxy or residential vpn users) use these proxies for privacy, and therefore give a reasonable alibi to abusers.



Cloudflare doesn't block bots.



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