It seems like having a website open and available on the internet is getting practically impossible to manage, with bots accounting for more and more traffic. AI has gotten to a point where it can circumvent just about any form of captcha, sooooo, what? Does "the internet just get abandoned in favor of some other, better technology that we hope crops up? Does it fade away? Do the real nerds start their own separate internet, and not let companies in? I donno, food for thought I guess.
Honestly I’m thinking about blocking all US traffic as part of a carte Blanche approach. It’s too hard to figure out which traffic from there is bots and most are from there.
What’s the best approach for this, geoscanning each visitor, or are there lists of IPs available to mass-block?
It woulds be good to know which is more computationally efficient… Whether you are geoblocking by location/IP or if you have a relatively up to date blocklist of IPs that are not trusted, or perhaps some combination of both.
I had looked into the a mix of Anubis and GeoIP blocking but I’m yonks away from determining what’s best.