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ethor

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    Study: https://bmjoncology.bmj.com/content/3/1/e000073

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    Comment #36082427

    Wouldn't an increase in co2 in the atmosphere spur a massive plant growth, both on land and in the oceans? I have no qualifications nor merit in this field as well, so anyone pleas…

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    Comment #35976264

    These statistics [1] would suggest that sociological factors are in play, especially if you look at the graphs for young people. The number of young men not having sex is at record…

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    Comment #35853380

    Just disable website search or change the search parameter inside website settings to stop Matomo from interpreting the 'q' parameter as search.

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    Comment #33984675

    It has been extensively covered here in Sweden.

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    Comment #33160999

    They do cater to a need and their solution is effective.

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    Comment #33160995

    Most of the bots concerns the frontpage.

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    How do you differ from Cloudflare?

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    I am concerned about false positives - but I will weigh cons and pros. Thank you for your suggestion.

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    1. Bots are more than half of my traffic right now and they don't provide any benefits except using my bandwidth and distort my statistics. 2. Strange behavior + technology 2a-c. C…

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    Blocking real users is not an option - but I can see that this would be a good setup if blocking bots were of the absolute highest priority.

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    In my case I am concerned about false positives since visitor experience is a higher priority than blocking all bots. Cloudflare, in my experience, do generate too many false posit…

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    Good suggestions. A priority is to not in any way diminish the visitor experience, I am therefore very wary of false positives.

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    Comment #33160889

    Excellent idea!

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    Ask HN: Best way to stop bot traffic?

    I have a site that gets bombarded with worthless robot traffic. I have previously used cloudflare but a lot of bots still gets through. What have you used that has been effective?

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    Well done! I love generating generic cartoons from input. Very useful when creating icons / avatars!

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