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by bodantogat 240 days ago
Not really surprised. I spend a ridiculous amount on time banning bots every week.
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doesn't cloudflare have block bot traffic out of the box?
They do but it's largely useless against all but the most unsophisticated of bots.
It blocks the most egregious and give a bot score that you can use to get more aggressive at the next layer. That score seems to miss a lot of bad traffic, making it not very useful in it's current state.
Some of the bots I see use residential proxies, rotate IP address, countries, as well as fire-up a real browser.