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IP Blocks The obvious first impulse, is to block the crawler's IP: it's a known bad actor and there's no point wasting time sending it a SYN-ACK , much less handling SSL handshakes and accepting a request. However, blocking by IP is an incredibly limited approach and has long been unable to give any real assurance: circumventing IP blocks has never been particularly difficult and yet still manages to be far easier...