[itintheory]

> The last time a server was failing to handle the pressure, we decided to temporarily ban IPs from some Asian regions.

This is something we've been forced to do at work, a LOT. Some weeks it's Huawei Cloud, Tencent, and Alibaba. Other weeks it's all China Telecom. We're using Anubis where possible, but a lot of it is just whack-a-mole with residential proxies. I looked at Datadome and HUMAN, but they would be hundreds of thousands a year at our traffic scale, and I suspect may also have false positives. We abandoned CrowdSec for that reason as well.

I'd love to find a decent k8s native solution to this problem.

[arbol]

Prosopo could cut out a lot of the residential proxy nonsense for you. We integrate with lambda@Edge / cloudfront workers / server side and perform analytics to detect residential proxy networks - at far less cost than DD or HUMAN.

[Hackbraten]

> I looked at Datadome and HUMAN, but they would be hundreds of thousands a year at our traffic scale, and I suspect may also have false positives.

I can confirm. DataDome has been making my life a living hell. It thinks my phone is a bot, so I can no longer use PayPal and other quasi-monopoly services while on the go. DataDome will reliably block me on the first request.

Fuck DataDome.