AI companies cause most of traffic on forums

Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by shark_laser on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @10:32PM (#42563762)

Yep. Same for most of Asia too.

Cloudflare's filters are basically straight up racist.

I have stopped using so many sites due to their use of Cloudflare.

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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by brianwawok on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @07:38PM (#42570553)

If 90% of your problem users come from 1-2 countries, seems pretty sensible to block that country. I know I have 0 paying users in those countries, so why deal with it? Let them go fight it out doing bot wars in local sites

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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by lazide on Thursday January 02, 2025 @04:39AM (#42573043)

Keep in mind, this is literally why stereotypes and racism exists. It’s the exact same process/reasoning.

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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by qeternity on Thursday January 02, 2025 @11:31AM (#42575893)

No, racism would be “I won’t deal with customers of Chinese ethnicity irrespective of their country of operation”.

Blocking Chinese (or whatever) IPs because they are responsible for a huge amount of malicious behavior is not racist.

Frankly I don’t care what the race of the Chinese IP threat actor is.

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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by lazide on Thursday January 02, 2025 @12:33PM (#42576507)

You really might want to re-read my comment.

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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by lazide on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @10:45PM (#42571441)

Well, not racist per-se - if you visit the countries (regardless of race) you’re screwed too.

Geo-location-ist?

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