Yeah, crap like this is why we always have a fallback of simply rate limiting any IP who hits the servers too hard. Because this is not a game worth playing. Bad actors will always think of clever ways to hide their bad acting. At a certain point, those of us who run major public web sites just don't care. If you aren't hurting our servers, you are irrelevant, and if you are hurting our servers, we block you.
Yeah, crap like this is why we always have a fallback of simply rate limiting any IP who hits the servers too hard. Because this is not a game worth playing. Bad actors will always think of clever ways to hide their bad acting. At a certain point, those of us who run major public web sites just don't care. If you aren't hurting our servers, you are irrelevant, and if you are hurting our servers, we block you.