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by pugz 1839 days ago
This raises something I've wondered for a while: is there a service or database that can give an indication of how many humans are behind a particular IP address? e.g. with CGNAT, there might be many thousands of people sharing a single IP. For some residential services, it might be 1-2 people.

It feels like this sort of data (even if only providing order of magnitude estimates) would help greatly with deciding on appropriate rate limits for small operators who don't have the time to research all the traffic they're receiving.