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Re:Botspam apocalypse by EdwardDiego on Thursday August 04, 2022 @04:48AM (#32340670)
Yup, in adtech, "IP is an AWS block" was a bot 99.999% of the time.

The 0.001% was that person using EC2 as a proxy or VPN server.

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Re:Botspam apocalypse by mobilio on Thursday August 04, 2022 @05:08AM (#32340774)
It's not only AWS. Also happens on Azure and GCP.
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Re:Botspam apocalypse by EdwardDiego on Thursday August 04, 2022 @06:32AM (#32341251)
True, but at the time, 3 - 4 years ago, Azure and GCP IPs were minimal.

Guess the fraudsters were vendor locked lol.

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