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Comment by marginalia_nu | original | Creepy Crawlies
[−]marginalia_nu · 2026-08-30 Sun 16:35 UTC · link
I've had a fair bit of success with increasing the bot mitigation based on a global rate limit. During periods of high request rates, I throw progressively more hurdles at the bots, and during periods of low request rates I disable them all.