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Re:Tell HN: A case of negative SEO I caught on my service an... by Gys on Friday February 12, 2021 @06:49AM (#26112674)
Do you have many users in Russia? You could block the whole country ;-)

Russia has no GDPR or something. So you could put (special key in) a cookie? They probably do not process it so subsequent requests without a cookie are to be discarded?

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Re:Tell HN: A case of negative SEO I caught on my service an... by lewiscollard on Friday February 12, 2021 @08:36AM (#26113459)
> Russia has no GDPR or something. So you could put (special key in) a cookie?

It is entirely permissible under the GDPR to use cookies for security purposes.

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