Comment by kstrauser
I’ve been enduring that exact same traffic pattern.
I used Anubis and a cookie redirect to cut the load on my Forgejo server by around 3 orders of magnitude: https://honeypot.net/2025/12/22/i-read-yann-espositos-blog.h...
I’ve been enduring that exact same traffic pattern.
I used Anubis and a cookie redirect to cut the load on my Forgejo server by around 3 orders of magnitude: https://honeypot.net/2025/12/22/i-read-yann-espositos-blog.h...
Aha, that's where the anime girl is from. What sort of traffic was getting past that but still thwarted by the cookie tactic?
I guess the bots are all spoofing consumer browser UAs and just the slightest friction outside of well-known tooling will deter them completely.