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by sjwright 5471 days ago
Unlike the assumptions you're limited to making, I know how much of my AWS traffic is human, and it's really very very very small. The sad reality is I'm sick and tired of rogue bots, and the tiny sliver of collateral damage can fill out the CAPTCHA validation every so often.

(I also blacklist GWS, rackspace, linode, softlayer, reliablehosting, ovh.net, node4, netdirect, layer42, all TOR exits... it's actually a pretty huge list.)