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Google does bot detection on a /24 basis. So you were still sharing with 253 other households most likely.


That would be idiotic. I don't think Googlers are idiots.


Of course they're not idiots. They're googlers, which means they have a very specific worldview and a work environment that focuses their perception of the universe into a very specific way of looking at things, where "scale" is both the cause and solution to all problems and of course attackers use whole subnets at a time and need to be shadowbanned appropriately.




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