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Re:You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list by adamckay on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @02:11PM (#32915636)
Of course, but the theory is it's restricting 1 real person to 1 account, versus 1 spammer creating 1,000 accounts via automation.

And once your spammer has been identified then that's them banned/removed, unable to sign up again.

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Re:You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list by tboyd47 on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @04:31PM (#32917377)
What's to stop them from using fake IDs
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Re:You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list by MichaelZuo on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @11:06PM (#32920404)
Airports seem to be able to spot fake passports pretty reliably.
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Re:You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list by tboyd47 on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @01:47PM (#32928609)
Try forcing 100% of online traffic through an airport security checkpoint.
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Re:You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list by MichaelZuo on Thursday September 22, 2022 @09:09AM (#32938302)
Presumably there can be more than one, like real life airport checkpoints? What are you even trying to say?
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