The ultimate bad bot blocker (https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker) does the heavy lifting for me, it updates multiple times per day to add and remove IP addreses and bot referers. It does need some monitoring though, some of the rules wildcard a bit hard and will catch mastadon servers with unusual names for example.
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The ultimate bad bot blocker (https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker) does the heavy lifting for me, it updates multiple times per day to add and remove IP addreses and bot referers. It does need some monitoring though, some of the rules wildcard a bit hard and will catch mastadon servers with unusual names for example.
Will check this out. Thanks!