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june3739last Wednesday at 3:12 AM3 repliesview on HN

They're popular enough that we'd penalize a substantial number of users.


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miyurulast Wednesday at 7:16 AM

Does the email address has a pattern? I faced similar registration attack, but the email address had pattern, I blocked them in code but gave a success response and the attack went away.

Imustaskforhelplast Wednesday at 6:32 AM

Let me guess, protonmail and tutanota?

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mjburgesslast Wednesday at 10:44 AM

Could you add some additional check if that domain is used? (Possibly with browser fingerprinting, or other req fingerprinting)

Possibly something even that just wastes a little time and makes them know you're aware of the behaviour.