I’ve been dealing with a botnet for the last few days, that’s been sending junk search queries at an increasingly aggressive rate. They were reasonably easy to flag and block but just kept increasing the rate until that stopped working. Long story short, my patience ran out and put my website behind cloudflare. I didn’t want to have to do this, because it does introduce a literal man in the middle and that kinda undermines the whole point of HTTPS, but I just don’t see any way around it.
