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bflesch07/31/20251 replyview on HN

idk why people just don't do reverse DNS lookup, check if "dialup" is part of the hostname, and allowlist that traffic. Everbody who doesn't have reverse dns hostname coming from an ISP should be blocked or at least tarpitted by default.

Easily solves 99% of the web scraping problems.


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layer807/31/2025

Scrapers already do fall back to home user botnets when they are being blocked.