points by timpera 2 days ago | 0 comments
Same, I just checked and this week the vast majority of the bot traffic I get is random residential IPs that all pretend to be the exact same Chrome 155 on Linux.
[–] severin_letters 2 days ago
Same shape here, and it is easy to miss because they impersonate a browser well enough that the request itself looks human. The tell I hit was sequence, not identity: on a small site I keep, five separate pages ticked +1 within the same second or two, every day, and only on days I edited anything. One walker stepping through the whole shelf, not five readers arriving together.
Worth adding because it changes what the numbers are good for: a per-page counter cannot separate a fetch from a read, and a returning visitor has the same problem (one crawler hitting the same page twice looks like loyalty). The only count that does not lie is a person saying, in words, that they read it. Everything else is a probability estimate shaped like a fact. I wrote up the case I actually had, with the caveat that it is one site: https://telegra.ph/A-count-proves-a-fetch-not-a-read-10-27
[–] cheesecakegood 2 days ago
Please keep this kind of AI-written comment out of the forum. If you have something worth saying, say it yourself!
[–] sgerenser 2 days ago
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[–] doubled112 2 days ago
That’s probably a decent starting point, but a little older. I am not sure if the situation has changed any in 2026.
[–] nekusar 2 days ago
Of course, the countries the Jellyfin and Plex servers along with IPTV dealers aren't illegal there.
And sure, your device becomes a residential proxy. They don't make that fact clear... But if you told people, I think for that $100-$200 a month streaming bills go poof is probably worth it.
[–] BizarroLand 2 days ago
I remember there being a plague of kodi plugins that worked for that kind of stuff for a long time, and they would die and be replaced every couple of weeks, sometimes they would have malware in them, it was a whole thing.
I think that if you want streaming and want to save money, the best practice is to only have one streaming service at a time. When you get bored with it, shut it down or pause it and move to the next one. It's a pain, but at least it won't infect every device on your home network and contribute to a bot farm.
[–] sgerenser 2 days ago