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Is there a way to ban people by their user agent(browser id) Because ip bans aint helping they keep coming back with either proxy or vpn.

Banning by useragent won't really help - it can be changed even more easily.

(2015-05-09, 10:02 PM)Destroy666 Wrote: [ -> ]Banning by useragent won't really help - it can be changed even more easily.

So theres acutally no way to stop them from coming back?

(2015-05-10, 09:32 AM)ilucky90 Wrote: [ -> ]

(2015-05-09, 10:02 PM)Destroy666 Wrote: [ -> ]Banning by useragent won't really help - it can be changed even more easily.

So theres acutally no way to stop them from coming back?

Just start blocking entire ASNs that belong to data-centers etc... There's no reason for anything other than home IP addresses to be accessing your site.

https://github.com/Zalvie/nginx_block_files

There's a good start. That's like a huge proportion of VPNs and proxies right there.

(2015-05-10, 12:40 PM)Marisa Wrote: [ -> ]

(2015-05-10, 09:32 AM)ilucky90 Wrote: [ -> ]

(2015-05-09, 10:02 PM)Destroy666 Wrote: [ -> ]Banning by useragent won't really help - it can be changed even more easily.

So theres acutally no way to stop them from coming back?

Just start blocking entire ASNs that belong to data-centers etc... There's no reason for anything other than home IP addresses to be accessing your site.

https://github.com/Zalvie/nginx_block_files

There's a good start. That's like a huge proportion of VPNs and proxies right there.

Do i need to upload them to  our webhost via ftp? Or do we need to add a certain code to  htaccess.