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Any thoughts on why ~30% of HTTP request are in US? I know we had first mover advantage for awhile but I'd expect this to have been diluted by larger populations by now. It doesn't appear to be AI/bot driven either.
Can bot traffic cause ad revenue to go up by any chance? Or false clicks that cost advertisers?
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I do understand why all of those bot scores are so high. But netherlands? Are there big datacenter providers I dont know of that are used by bots?
Amsterdam is one of the largest global internet hubs.
One funny thing I've discovered as a result of certificate transparency logs is that the second your host gets given an SSL cert, you are immediately blasted with ai crawlers. I put a project online - it was online for a month, and the second I added an SSL cert it went from 0 traffic to 1000 requests/min.
Either way! People monitor cert registries for targets.
One funny thing I've discovered as a result of certificate transparency logs is that the second your host gets given an SSL cert, you are immediately blasted with ai crawlers. I put a project online - it was online for a month, and the second I added an SSL cert it went from 0 traffic to 1000 requests/min.
> One funny thing I've discovered as a result of certificate transparency logs is that the second your host gets given an SSL cert I've been thinking of using wildcard certs for Caddy in regards to this.
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Why would blocking those be a problem?
because you are blocking all of Comcast, Verizon, T-Mobile, British Telecom, .... at the end you have blocked every network with human visitors and only datacenter IPs can access your site. The proxies rotate IP every day, so you either have ineffective blocking or you block the whole network.
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> One funny thing I've discovered as a result of certificate transparency logs is that the second your host gets given an SSL cert I've been thinking of using wildcard certs for Caddy in regards to this.
and then what? serve your app under some obscure / customer unfriendly subdomain?
It's a silly metric. There could be only one master bot that pings every known endpoint multiple times a second, and that would probably surpass all human activity, too. It doesn't really tell us much about intention or the ability to masquerade as humans. Where I would start to worry is if there's evidence that bot access patterns are starting to become harder to distinguish from human access patterns, which would s…
>but I do worry about how many social bots are attempting to manipulate or mislead people. You should browse reddit sometime. The easy ones to spot just autocreate accounts using the autoname at signup, which is of the formfactor [word1][word2]/d{4} Regex nazis please spare me, I am doing my bestest
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