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You can't make the argument that it's a small group of bad actors. It's quite a massive group of unrelentingly malicious actors

Massive in terms of money and power, small in terms of souls

I read it as small compared to total population affected by the block

But that’s not the case either. A large attack or scrape generates far more traffic than legitimate users.

It's not because of a few bad actors, it's because of a hostile or incompetent government.

Every country has (at the very least) a few bad actors, it's a small handful of countries that actively protect their bad actors from any sort of accountability or identification.

To be fair most of my bad traffic is from the US.

I mean if that's the case, the conversation obviously changes.

I know what you mean.

But the numbers don't lie. In my case, I locked down to a fairly small group of European countries and the server went down from about 1500 bot scans per day down to 0.

The tradeoff is just too big to ignore.