it's 2026. robots try to kill your website several times a day. you have promised your users not to track their IPs. this is a little unfortunate.

@lzg "I like you, but I don't trust you."

Honestly this is one of the harder problems security and privacy people have to deal with.

@lzg
A reasonable change to the TOS might be, “… unless you ping our site more than 500 times in a minute.”