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The traffic sources do have prevention and filtering, but because of the newer AI elements employed it has become near impossible for many of them too.

So much of prevention will reside in where and how you generate traffic as well as controlling the traffic from shared links by bots. I had a banner on one of my sites that the bots hammered and it took me a week to properly isolate them for prevention.

The thing about the proxies is you can end up filtering out loads of good and viable traffic. We have that issue here with member signups as well. Our system has loads of various bot, proxy, and fraud prevention elements employed and I still get 50 to 150 member signup attempts from the bots employing AI. If I filter out too many of the IP's, especially using any known proxy IP lists, I end up preventing legitimate people from joining. This is a huge issue for all of us with most everything we do!

Fraud is the enemy and you can blame most of it having roots in the black hat community. All it does is create fraud and at the expense of all of us!