Signup abuse detection and blocking

Signup abuse detection and blocking [Paid] 1.16.11

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@Xon : Given the reports on this forum lately about the massive rise of AI bots that are scraping content w/o registration I am wondering if it would be possible to extend this add on to not only block signup but also visits of the forum, using ASNs and country codes. Those are already in there and in use in the "Connection profiling - ASN" section, so to extend the possiblities of that would be a very beneficial feature for those who don't use Cloudflare and are on shared hosting (so lacking a configurable firewall and in most cases apache mod_asn as well). Clearly a brilliant way to shoot oneself in the foot as well - but as stated this add on is "no turnkey solution" anyway already. ;) Would absolutely love that!

PS: Would also be happy with this feature being an extension to the add on or a separate add on.
 
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Xon said:
If you want to block by ASN's I recommend using clouldflare so the traffic never reaches your site.
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I try to avoid Cloudflare as they have become much too powerful. They are in a way as close to a monopoly as Google has become. And, as Google has already done, from solving problems they are becoming part of the problem. So I try to stay away from them as long as I can.
 
I'm noticing an uptick in spammers that quote a post with links, then edit those links or add their own. Its easy to overlook.
As well as AI spammers posting 800 word posts with a link hidden in it somewhere.
It starts to go beyond the attention span of a human. Some AI analysis would be quite helpful to highlight what and where the issue is.
This may be beyond the scope of this addon. Though I think this will only get more frequent and advanced.
 
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