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Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges.
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this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2025
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I would hope not. Kinda pointless if they become public
On the contrary. Open community based block lists can be very effective. Everyone can contribute to them and asphyxiate people with malicious intents.
If you think something like, "if the blocklist is available then malicious agents simply won't use that ips" I don't think if that makes a lot of sense. As the malicious agent will know any of their IPs being blocked as soon as they use them.
Just to give an example of public lists that are working, I have an IRC server and it's getting bombarded with spam bots. It's horrible around the superbowl for some reason, but it just continues year round.
So I added a few public anti spamming lists like dronebl to the config, and the vast majority of the bots are automatically G-Lined/banned.
Im sure there are many but I just learned of Crowdsecs WAF this year which is has a shared ban list. Its pretty cool. Im using it in prod right now. Im not saying it's the be all end all, but as part of a multilayered approach, it works pretty well.
It doesn't seem to be free though, right?
I dont know if they have a paid version but their free version has worked for me.
I suppose it depends on whether others contribute or not.