BrettC's latest activity
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Strong disagree. Until i got ASN blocks and fail2ban really, really tuned in, we were spending an extra $300/month in bandwidth plus... -
BrettC reacted to angelchovski's post in the thread Any news about Xenforo 3.0, can we expect modern forum? with
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Wildcat Media nailed it. The forum isn't outdated - the expectations of people raised on algorithms instead of critical thinking are... -
BrettC replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.Interesting take on it. For whatever it may be worth, and as I've previously stated: I'm fine with indexing bots that that respect...
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It is an interesting read but one should take it with loads of grains of salt. The issue with cloudflare is that they clearly see the...
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At the moment, most of the bad scrapers aren't smart enough to add those cookies in. They often don't even use valid referrers for their...
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Unreal. This is out of control. Xenforo's own forum...
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BrettC replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.This is the way. Welcome back to the ways of sanity! Once people begin wizening up to this mass AI-scraping garbage, the better. I...
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For anyone still fighting this issue, the non-believers, fixing the issue at the source as I outlined on 31 Mar...
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I finally solved most of this issue by blocking (challenging) a whole bunch of countries in Cloudflare. (That is quite easy on our site...
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BrettC reacted to Matthew S's post in the thread Additional language for [code=...] bbcode with Like.
In case anyone was still wanting to do this, the prismjs github doesn't have a 'components' folder anymore as they have made several...
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BrettC replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.I have a script that is querying whois.radb.net port 43 and using nc to get the given IP routes matching route: and route6:, example...
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BrettC replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.Looking over github for the past couple of days, and I've come across some 'interesting'... things...
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BrettC replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.Allow me to assist you with sh*t listing the current ASN of 139341 IPv4 and IPv6. Current as of March 30 2026 (when my scripts run). One...
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[XFSkins] Online Activity URL is a small and lightweight add-on for XenForo 2.3. In some cases, guests or visitors may appear in the...
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BrettC replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.Ah, that makes much more sense! The configuration that you've set is effectively doing the walled-garden treatment. I'd be curious to...
