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Re:Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me by delusional on Monday August 25, 2025 @01:50AM (#45010624)
At that point it almost sounds like we're doing "peering" agreements at the IP level.

Would it make sense to have a class of ISPs that didn't peer with these "bad" network participants?

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Re:Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me by JimDabell on Monday August 25, 2025 @01:55AM (#45010659)
If this didn’t happen for spam, it’s not going to happen for crawlers.
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Re:Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me by shortrounddev2 on Monday August 25, 2025 @02:05AM (#45010714)
Why not just ban all IP blocks assigned to cloud providers? Won't halt botnets but the IP range owned by AWS, GCP, etc is well known
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Re:Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me by aorth on Monday August 25, 2025 @04:10AM (#45011475)
Tricky to get a list of all cloud providers, all their networks, and then there are cases like CATO Networks Ltd and ZScaler, which are apparently enterprise security products that route clients traffic through their clouds "for security".
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Re:Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me by jjayj on Monday August 25, 2025 @03:10AM (#45011141)
But my work's VPN is in AWS, and HN and Reddit are sometimes helpful...

Not sure what my point is here tbh. The internet sucks and I don't have a solution

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Re:Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me by hnlmorg on Monday August 25, 2025 @03:06AM (#45011111)
Because crawlers would then just use a different IP which isn’t owned by cloud vendors.
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