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BallardRex t1_it09o6q wrote

Let me save you a click, some Android forks in India were badly made and try to download block lists over and over.

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anonymous3850239582 t1_it0kzwj wrote

Sucks how it's impossible to block IPs.

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Leprecon t1_it34iom wrote

> When we encountered a similar problem last year, we found a simple solution: block the undesired traffic from these apps. Even so, we continue to serve about 100TB of “Access Denied” pages monthly!

It says in the article why blocking isn’t a good solution either. They are still DDOSing, whether they are blocked or not.

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josefx t1_it1o94u wrote

Seems familiar. Didn't wikipedia have a similar issue some time ago, with some Indian App pulling the same image again and again? Of course they could just rename the image and that probably isn't an option here.

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