Who's been here — wasnotwas

residential crawlers datacenter

Traffic

Total auth checks

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One per page load, every visitor, every time

Residential free pass

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Not in any datacenter range — waved straight through

Known crawlers

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Google, Bing, embeds — UA-matched, zero friction

Datacenter IPs flagged

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AWS · Azure · GCP · Hetzner · Tor and friends

Challenge outcomes

Humans verified

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Answered the question, got a cookie, got in

Bounced

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Saw the question, decided the content wasn't worth it

Wrong answers

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Tried something, got it wrong, didn't come back

Threats & infrastructure

Honeypot trips

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Followed a link invisible to any real browser

Bots identified

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Submitted a joke via the identify form — respect

IP ranges in memory

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Merged CIDRs across 12 sources, synced nightly