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How to Block a Botnet

It was clear somebody had deployed some sort of nefarious botnet that they had at us, which I thought was pretty funny. So we didn't have cloud flare. We didn't have capture. That's another easy way to stop this type of thing is you don't capture on the submit form. And somebody can only submit it so however many times you could also put rate limiting in but generally rate limiting is based on either the person's browser and or their IP address. You have to use it like a capture to get away from that type of stuff.

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