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What were those 0 thru 7 percentages an hour ago?
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@xper Is this all just server overload? ie, the gateway errors have NOTHING to do with the visitor's IP Address, but all about the CPU Percentage at the time of the visitor's attempted visit?
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Excellent. That makes sense. The email address these use is not used over and over again, but there is only so much we can do / safeguard against.
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And the same question applies to spam-posters that successfully posted one or two posts. Were they deleted at the time of the spam-post offense? 'cause if not, this zero-count cleanup won't catch them.
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We used to get hit with a sh#t-ton of INTUIT (Turbotax, Quicken) spam. Like a HUNDRED all in a matter of MINUTES. Did these spam-poster accounts get deleted when the posts were deleted? Or are they still counted as "members" that won't be deleted because they don't have a zero-count?
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And again, just "thinking out loud", but do these bots GIVE UP and GO AWAY if we run Cloudflare for ONE MONTH? Then return to without Cloudflare until they come back and do that again to get them to GIVE UP?
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Just "thinking out loud", per se. Do the bot attacks fit into any "schedule"? ie, if 80% of them (just to make up a number) all occur between the hours of X and Y, can Cloudflare be turned on only for those hours? Then the "older browser" folks would just know to only use MSFN outside of those hours.
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Totally up to you, pros and cons both ways. It's all a bit of a mystery to me, to be honest. ie, financial web sites, Vogons.org, I could list dozens, they don't use Cloudflare but they thwart off the bots "somehow". I can see the finance sites paying for that bot control. But not other sites like Vogons.org. So a mystery to me.
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Noted. My uBO is not showing any connection to any Cloudflare site. I will have to check that again if I do get a CF connection when/if a 502 shows up again. Thanks again for everything.
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Me too. ☹️
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I had the locked message yesterday also. I did not have any saved log-in session to resume (all of my browsers clear their cache and cookies at every exit). Today there is no locked message, so it appears that has been found and fixed. 🙂
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Sweet! A "fact" that 100% aligns with everyone else's "facts" without arrogantly acting like one fact 'invalidates' the other. Great work! I think you finally found the REAL ANSWER.
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I don't think the "fake IP" (VPN) is really fixing anything for the end user. I myself have done ZERO to "fake" my IP. I get hit with the gateway 502 left and right. Just refresh a dozen times and it may finally let you in without faking IP. Or you come back 10 minutes later and do the dozen tries all over again. It really isn't tied to IP, from what I can see.
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It's a goddamn nightmare for all of us. This isn't an "old browser" issue (I get this goddamn nightmare on Win10 + most-recent Edge). Just delete all members, bot or not, and have us all create NEW MEMBERSHIPS. I'm starting to think that is our ONLY ROUTE OUT.
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That "was" my experience as well. BUT... recently, Cloudflare has been passing on Chromium/Chrome v144 (SEVEN months old - pre-dates browser AI Infestation!). Even for my city utilities billpay. Knocking on wood, not to jinx it.