Dear Chinese users of PPM, we urgently need your feedback!

Banshee

Hello everyone, especially visitors from China.

PPM is receiving a massive invasion from bots, crawlers using Huawei Cloud Services (IP 117.78.XXX.XXX) making the forums down for real users from anywhere in the world. The picture below shows a taste of the amount of "guests" that have been visiting our forums recently. And honestly, it is incompatible with the number of humans that visit this place (I doubt it is more than 500 per day).

I do not know if this comes from sites using a crawler to obtain whatever information from PPM, or bots trying to spam the forums or... governmental matters.

Is there any chinese human whose Internet Service Provider is Huawei Cloud Services? Please, answer this question.

For me, the answer is probably no. It would be like someone here browsing the web with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud or Azure.... it just doesn't make any sense.

If we continue to be harassed by this thing, I'll be forced to place a forced captcha before serving the site for those who are using this Huawei Cloud Services. I don't want chinese humans to be affected by this decision, so please, provide your feedback here before it is too late. All I want is to this place be online for all of us.... humans... regardless of the country we live.

G-E · Defense Minister **Joined**: 09 Feb 2015

99% chance it's a spam/hack attempt, a CAPTCHA wouldn't hurt, but the good bots have been trained to beat those too.

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MasterHaosis · General **Joined**: 01 Nov 2010 **Location**: Serbia

Banshee do it!
I told you. it all started with my Halloween pack, when I got 200 downloads in first day! You said you wont put it for guests. You ignored first sign! Very Happy

Now, second wave happened! Be smart or you wont see site for third wave Very Happy

(until Halloween itself Very Happy

) haha

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Banshee · Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 6:51 pm Post subject:

Just to point out, by analyzing the logs, bots from Huawei Cloud Services never load images.

Instead of using captcha, I'll control their access. Only 3 sites access on a period of 2 minutes... I'm still deciding the details.

I'm still not sure if the Chinese government uses this service to provide protection for its citizens (from their point of view).

Banshee · Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 9:19 pm Post subject:

Update: We have applied our flood control solution against that abusive service. Crawlers, bots, whatever.... using it will only be able to access the forums once per 40 seconds. I hope this speed up this place for all human visitors from any country, including China.

PussyPus · Commander **Joined**: 14 Jul 2015 **Location**: Egypt

Well, today i i've got several, exactly 16 tracking cookies 3 seconds after i visited this site today, but i'm not sure if it has something to do with Huawei Cloud Services or not or it has something to do with flood control thing, it happened only when you posted this 'update'.

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Banshee · Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 5:58 pm Post subject:

It has nothing to do with cookies at all.

OverWatch · Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2019 4:09 am Post subject:

I use iphone...

Banshee · Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2019 4:00 pm Post subject:

Thank you very much for your feedback Smile

. It's great to know that you can still access PPM from China.