@RustyCrab
You can make exceptions, but there's lots of hackers and scammers in Russia. Most have to use VPN to access western services anyway. I've got all of Asia minus Japan blocked in cloudflare firewall. I can't read Jap script so I might block them anyway, too many pedos.
@dj you definitely get interesting users from Japan when they do speak english, but yes, that is a serious problem. I'm wondering if that's just a fediverse thing or a national plague
@RustyCrab
The Jap boomer method. It's a tempting but really lazy and ineffective solution that won't protect you from more serious threats. It will work to block most jeets, but is trivially easy to get around with VPNs or proxies.
Really you should be set up with rate-limiting, fail2ban, and other gatekeeping systems to protect you from attacks generically. If your website is tight-knit enough, it's best to go invite-only.
@sepples yeah there's obviously ways around that. Most of the time from what I have seen though they just don't even bother. You just block IPs and that's usually the end of it.
Much of the time they're not targeting you in particular but they are doing mass scraping of half the internet and if you fall off the results list they don't even notice.
@mischievoustomato@RustyCrab Imagine not wanting to enable cookie selection and instead block Europe. GDPR is so easy to bypass and people don't even bother.
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