Good morning everyone. Just a quick heads up that I've banned a good chunk of IP space in China due to abusive traffic.
I've tried to restrict this where possible to datacenter blocks from Huawei, Tencent, and Alibaba, but China Telecom / Mobile were also heavy sources of suspicious traffic. I doubt we have many (if any) users in China, but if you are affected please let me know.
This has been ongoing for a while and I ignored it initially since the traffic levels were low, but it wasn't anymore.
The ban has very visibly cut our traffic levels:
Cloudflare tries, but bots do a pretty good job looking like regular users these days. There's some more advanced "AI" solutions that learn based on existing traffic patterns, but I've been out of that space for a while so not sure what the latest tech is.
I could imagine that some specialized models could actually be useful for this use case. Perhaps even OSS.