alt Hacker NewsI recently had my donation-driven site ruined by bots, it's a constant battle. I (jokingly) proposed we should amend the fax spam law to take this into consideration:
https://www.karlbunch.com/random/website-protection-act/
555 gigabytes of bandwidth in a week! We're paying more for egress than compute and storage now. I've tried robots.txt and finally gave in and started setting up aggressive WAF rules.
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jeremyjh • today at 3:32 PM
What kind of rules have been successful? Is it something that is constantly shifting and you have to react to, or WAF handles it based on usage patterns?
I like the idea, but in S227(g)(1) - "training shall compensate the server operator for the bandwidth and compute resources consumed" - bandwidth can be defined in finite terms for the size of the data pulled, but "compute resources consumed" is arbitrary.