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alightsoul
16 days ago
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An update on residential proxies and the scraper s...
Wikipedia maintains a quite exhaustive list of them to prevent spam and they also block vpn IPs as soon as they're found.
fc417fc802
16 days ago
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That is an entirely different matter. They only block (AFAIK) editing which is a scenario where PoW would not be expected to solve the problem. What I was talking about here is IP banning as a (boneheaded) mitigation against high volume scrapers.
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