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notatoad
6 months ago
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The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s ne...
It wouldn’t stop anyone. The bots you want to block already operate out of places where those laws wouldn’t be enforced.
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Then that is a good reason to deny the requests from those IPs
literalAardvark
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I've run a few hundred small domains for various online stores with an older backend that didn't scale very well for crawlers and at some point we started blocking by continent.
It's getting really, really ugly out there.
account42
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If that was the case then I am I getting buttflare-blocked here in the EU.
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