Actually firewalls can filter out ip ranges. The problem is indeed the 'distributed' part, the requests don't come from specific ip ranges, they come from machines all over the internet. It's basicly impossible to see the difference between a request that comes from a user and a request generated by a program
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Actually firewalls can filter out ip ranges. The problem is indeed the 'distributed' part, the requests don't come from specific ip ranges, they come from machines all over the internet. It's basicly impossible to see the difference between a request that comes from a user and a request generated by a program