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Re:stonks.click – You click. Stonks go up. by gus_massa on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:03PM (#25824575)
In spite of perfect detections of fake clicks is impossible, at lest trying to detect and filter them is a nice problem.

I don't expect advanced solutions against your site. It's not a bank, nobody would get a huge profit with fake clicks. You need to fight against script kiddies, not specialized hardware.

So I guess some easy heuristic to detect people that clicks too fast or do not sleep for a week will be enough.

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Re:stonks.click – You click. Stonks go up. by jbesomi on Monday January 18, 2021 @02:21PM (#25825436)
Indeed. Thanks for advice. I will implement it. I will first work on a throtting system will and a way to detect programmed clicks. This should already drastically reduce spam.
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Re:stonks.click – You click. Stonks go up. by gus_massa on Monday January 18, 2021 @03:10PM (#25826021)
Those two Spanish accounts look very suspicious...
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Re:stonks.click – You click. Stonks go up. by jbesomi on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @04:19PM (#25839022)
Indeed.
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