The Day I Logged 1 in Every 2000 Public IPv4: Visualizing the AI Scraper DDoS

The Day I Logged 1 In Every 2000 Public IPv4: Visualizing The AI Scraper DDoS 2026-04-28 (Tue) ; by ~lux ; 1167 words ; about 6 minutes ; #ai scrapers; #ddos; #dataviz; #iocaine; In an attempt to grasp the magnitude of web scraper attacks against my websites, i went the way of visualizing. i don’t think i need to explain to you, dear reader, why web massive web scraping is a pain in the ass. This is not going to be a post as researched or informational as that first one. i’ve been fighting web scrapers as much as i could for almost two years now, and the battle is getting tough. Some tools, like Iocaine (thanks Algernon for the work you put into it) help a lot by at least sparing my backend from gratuitous amounts of requests (sometimes multiple dozens per second, each completely random).

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