this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2026
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>Their activity can closely resemble ordinary browsing, but it happens at machine speed and can be repeated on an enormous scale.
I don't browse at machine speed. Perhaps there's a detection thingy to make. Perhaps not faster than 1 second per page.
(Why can't I properly use the markup in my replies?)
uhh, the bots are requesting multiple sites in parallel, not in series, so it's difficult to say "hey look, that user moves through 5 pages per second". instead, you'd say "hey look, there's 5 users each crawling through 1 page per second".
I think you're missing the space after > for the quote syntax.
I just use the Markup buttons. Let's add a space:
That works, thanks.