[Screenshot 2020-07-01 at 23.04.02] there are way more than that in the list, any ideas?

I saw this in the logs of one of our clients today so this is more than a coincidence. [image] EDIT no I think it is a coincidence, searching for ymwears .cn shows more complaints about referral spam, for example these (over one year old) Relevanssi shows weird search queries on my page | WordPre…

I had a client complaining about these last month. I blocked a few IPs and considered configuring fail2ban to block IPs that searched for some of those URLs, but never actual did anything about it. I looked in to blocking by geographic region, but it seemed that you’d need a $20/month database to ac…

interesting are you guys aware of any solution that might work without having to mess around with the server itself.. @pfaffman @RGJ

Referrer spam is a pretty big issue which even the big guys (i.e. Google Analytics) are not fighting 100% successfully. For now all I can think of is removing these entries manually. Since these sites are apparently - at least partially - the same on multiple independent Discourse sites (given the …

[image] Yassine_Yousfi: Interesting are you guys aware of any solution that might work without having to mess around with the server itself… We have seen, addressed and mitigated this issue at a large scale for years and have found the more reliable way (over the past few years) to block rou…

Yes, I absolutely agree that IP blocking is not effective. User agent blocking tends to work pretty well, except when the spammers are constantly changing it. That’s why my thoughts went to just blacklisting the actual URL that is being referrer spammed. It just “feels better” because we’re not b…

[image] RGJ: User agent blocking tends to work pretty well, except when the spammers are constantly changing it. That’s why my thoughts went to just blacklisting the actual URL that is being referrer spammed. Good thoughts. There is no one size fits all to stop rouge and malicious bots; and…

[image] neounix: As soon as admins come up with one good detection and mitigation strategy, the spammers and scrappers will adjust and find ways around it. Which is another reason to stay away from IP blacklisting: the spammers will know you are taking measures.

I think can block most spammers through Cloudflare but not sure what to put in rules for the browser Agent @neounix what do you mean by “UA strings”? and how can they be used in Cloudflare firewall rules?

[image] RGJ: Referrer spam is a pretty big issue which even the big guys But this isn’t even referrer spam, is it? It’s just that they are doing a search for that URL, so it’s not actually doing anything, is it? Do I totally misunderstand what that report is? It’s not available to anyone but …

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) July 3, 2020, 11:52am 9

Which is another reason to stay away from IP blacklisting: the spammers will know you are taking measures.

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Why I'm getting lots of searches from Chinese websites?

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