ActionRetro,
@ActionRetro@bitbang.social avatar

People creating bots to hammer FrogFind... this is why we can't have nice things.

Need to come up with some bot protections I guess 😭

kkarhan,

@ActionRetro Consider migrating to some #DDOs-protected #Hosting?

I.e. #Contabo does that transparently without brickibg shit like #ClownFlare...

retroswim,
@retroswim@bitbang.social avatar

@ActionRetro I have had similar transgressions occur against VogonsDrivers lately. I've had to blacklist a few IP ranges to get it under control.

I have the same factors preventing me from using a caching CDN.

It's a pickle!

rigues,
@rigues@bitbang.social avatar

@ActionRetro This is one of the services the company I work for provides. Check out www.azion.com 😉

morningbus,

@ActionRetro have you considered some type of easily xeroxable wheel where you have to dial in a specific frog to get a password.

UpLateGeek,
@UpLateGeek@bitbang.social avatar

@ActionRetro probably just teenagers from Queensland mistaking it for a cane toad and using it for golf practice.

aris_tgd,

@ActionRetro Yikes. Script kiddies ruin everything.

mueller_minki,

@ActionRetro For MSD I solved this by rate limiting IPs and once they passed it i just sent them a redirect header going to microsoft.com

ernie,
@ernie@writing.exchange avatar

@ActionRetro I think they mistook FrogFind for Frogstomp.

karpour,
@karpour@mstdn.social avatar

@ActionRetro I used to have a retro hacker news proxy that basically served hacker news for really old browsers, also used that "reader mode" php library to render sites, I assume you use the same. Had to take it down eventually as bots ruined the fun :/

ActionRetro,
@ActionRetro@bitbang.social avatar

@karpour ahh shucks yep

RyunoKi,
@RyunoKi@layer8.space avatar

@ActionRetro Hm, Rate Limiting in the first iteration?

(Would then likely make them call from different IPs)

mmu_man,
@mmu_man@m.g3l.org avatar

@ActionRetro oh nooooo 😞

thomasfuchs,
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io avatar

@ActionRetro ughhhhhhh

billgoats,
@billgoats@bitbang.social avatar

@ActionRetro Oh, poopsicles :(

simonzerafa,

@ActionRetro

Perhaps have a chat with @cloudflare to see what they can do? 🫤🖖

elosha,
@elosha@chaos.social avatar

@simonzerafa @ActionRetro @cloudflare Cloudflare would block all vintage computers and probably insist on HTTPS 🙅‍♀️

simonzerafa,

@elosha @ActionRetro @cloudflare

Given the other comments about CF's poor attitude they might not be a good fit anyway 🫤🤷‍♂️

kkarhan,

@simonzerafa @elosha @ActionRetro @cloudflare #ClownFlare literally blocks @torproject / #Tor users and hosted #KiwiFarms until big customers threatened to yeet them, so nope:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np9erdnM4l8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYkFYmqJYvE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4n6zmajfsM

Just go with a solid #Webhoster like #Hetzner or #Contabo and be done with it.

Or even better: Release #FrogFind as #FLOSS so more people can setup such #WebProxy servers...

ZiggyTheHamster,

@simonzerafa @ActionRetro

This is your regular reminder that it took a monumental effort to get Cloudflare to stop providing transit for abusers, stalkers, people who make credible threats of violence, neo-Nazis, and that their official stance is that even if they transit a site whose users cause the death of people, they will by default take no action.

I additionally have corroborating experience where their sales engineer asked me, a man, if my woman coworker was correct or not. She was.

ZiggyTheHamster,

@simonzerafa @ActionRetro not only was she correct, I was not the subject matter expert in the thing she was trialing. She was.

Needless to say, we did not continue with them as a candidate for providing CDN services.

Also, the way they handled the bug where their nginx leaked data across tenants was awful and they tried to make the case that their poor response was actually excellent because unrelated companies are worse.

kkarhan,
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