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Cybersecurity Public Sector19 min reading time

A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website

Hacker NewsPublished Aug 7, 2026

The PatronView website, hosting 1.5 million profile pages, experienced overwhelming bot traffic, with 214 bot page loads for every human visit. The site owner shares detailed firewall rules and observations, including blocking Amazon's AI crawler and noting extremely low CAPTCHA solve rates by bots.

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