• bountygiver [any]
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    humans typically don’t visit [website]/fdfjsidfjsidojfi43j435345 when there’s no button that links to it

    • Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world
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      I used to do this on one of my sites that was moderately popular in the 00’s. I had a link hidden via javascript, so a user couldn’t click it (unless they disabled javascript and clicked it), though it was hidden pretty well for that too.

      IP hits would be put into a log and my script would add a /24 of that subnet into my firewall. I allowed specific IP ranges for some search engines.

      Anyway, it caught a lot of bots. I really just wanted to stop automated attacks and spambots on the web front.

      I also had a honeypot port that basically did the same thing. If you sent packets to it, your /24 was added to the firewall for a week or so. I think I just used netcat to add to yet another log and wrote a script to add those /24’s to iptables.

      I did it because I had so much bad noise on my logs and spambots, it was pretty crazy.

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        This thread has provided genius ideas I somehow never thought of, and I’m totally stealing them for my sites lol.

    • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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      I LOVE VISITING FDFJSIDFJSIDOJFI435345 ON HUMAN WEBSITES, IT IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE HUMAN HOBBIES. 🤖👨