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Not the person you are asking but site operators can not tell intent. It could be something nasty on the network or a botter feigning ignorance.

I'd say its probably an acceptable casualty in the battleground that is the internet especially for little one-off sites hosting blogs, forums, chat servers, etc... For a bigger site I would expect that person may have to open a ticket with the platform such as Amazon accepting that some CDN's and firewalls may be harder to get the block removed. This is why we can't have nice things.

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thats the hard part, right - my 76 year old dad is on his banking app while his samsung TV is allowing a bot to try and take over other accounts at the same bank on the same IP.

IP Blacklists, no matter how good can't stop this. You have to start using stats or deep-diving telemetry.

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/172/

thats the hard part, right - my 76 year old dad is on his banking app while his samsung TV is allowing a bot to try and take over other accounts at the same bank on the same IP.

So appeal to emotion doesn't fly with me. If grandpa is 76 in the year of our lord 2026 that means he was 50 when the internet was getting popular and 59 when cell phones became very popular on the internet. He's not much older than I. He knows what's up.

God help the makers of that television if he finds out it has been spying on him and dorking around with his traffic. If they are lucky he will just take a baseball bat to it. If they are unlucky he will fly to their headquarters and end up on a viral bodycam video likely with a lot of supporters that will bail him out of jail.

IP Blacklists, no matter how good can't stop this. You have to start using stats or deep-diving telemetry.

I use a myriad of methods including IP blacklists. That's my choice and every site operators choice. I do not have to use deep-diving telemetry but you are free to do so.

It doesn't dork around with his traffic, it makes its own traffic. In exchange for a discount.