> Here's how it identifies itself: “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Thinkbot/0.5.8; +In... | Hacker News

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		nojs 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me > Here's how it identifies itself: “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Thinkbot/0.5.8; +In_the_test_phase,_if_the_Thinkbot_brings_you_trouble,_please_block_its_IP_address._Thank_you.)”. I mean you could just ban the user agent? The real issue is with bots pretending not to be bots.

ryantgtg 6 months ago [–]

This one was funny because I checked a day’s log and it was using at least 15 different IPs. Much easier to just ban or rate limit “Thinkbot”

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