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Comment by Aurornis

Rate limiting is the first step before cutting everything off behind forced logins.

> This practice started with larger websites, ones that already had protection from malicious usage like denial-of-service and abuse in the form of services like Cloudflare or Fastly

FYI Cloudflare has a very usable free tier that’s easy to set up. It’s not limited to large websites.

parent Aurornis 1 year ago

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