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0 pointsshaky-carrousel1y ago0 comments

Hm, is probably too late, but you could have implemented in your API calls some kind of proof of work. Something that's not too onerous for a casual user but it is hard for someone trying multiple requests.

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Szpadel1y ago

This was actually one of my ideas how to solve it, observed behaviour strongly suggested that all those thousands of IP addresses where used by single server. Even small PoW with this volume should heavly influence their capacity. But we decided that we did not want to affect performance of mobile users. We later learned that such strategy is also used by cloudflare js check

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