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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    From Claude server log analysis Before (13:06–15:29)After (15:31–15:48) Requests reaching your serverabout 270 a minuteabout 28 a...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Claude just analysed the log - every single block was a bot - no real users. None had a referer. I guess I could maybe add a referer...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Well I got sick of the xxx ers hammering day and night the last few days - nearly all from USA. It wasn't particularly causing any...
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    Alvin63 reacted to Andy.N's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    @Anthony Parsons you need to put the wealth of knowledge in an article or guide resources for CF members. I have a paid account there...
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    Alvin63 reacted to BrettC's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    Google Analytics is based on raw page access and invoking the GA script, similar to the forum active users list invoking any XF2 routes...
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    Alvin63 reacted to Andy.N's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    We are playing whack a mole for a seeable future it seems. Once we figure out something, bots will come up with new ways to attack.
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Blocking countries is whack a mole. Challenging forum pathways gets them wherever they are from. I still found it helped to block...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    If you want to try just one custom rule to challenge the bots, you could try this if you want but if you read back a bit, Anthony has...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    It's just a case of using the rules to reduce the numbers hitting the server and the site really. I have three rules 1) Block rule - I...
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    Alvin63 reacted to Anthony Parsons's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    Managed rules are cloudflare, primarily, upgraded accounts allows you to make changes and add CF managed rules to your site. Custom...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Had another idea. Out of the 1.37 million requests, 1.31 million of them are from desktop - and as they all hit Whats new then maybe I...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Thanks - thought it sounded too simple. Definitely needs some legislation if this is all currently legal as residential proxies are...
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    Alvin63 reacted to smallwheels's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    You probably can't in a useful way. Most of the bots don't serve the Google Analytics script, so they don't show up in analytics.
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    Alvin63 reacted to smallwheels's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    Let's see: There are roughly probably at least 30 sellers of those proxies. Each typically claims to have several million IP addresses...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    A quirky thought, if these people building scrapers, can get a list of residential proxies, like on that video, couldn't we get the same...
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