I develop websites on ProcessWire CMS, and I use Plausible Analytics for privacy-focused traffic monitoring. One day I noticed something odd: huge traffic spikes from Singapore. Hundreds of "visitors" daily, but zero actual engagement. Fake browsers hitting product pages, crawling everything, driving up server load.
My first thought was simple: "wouldn't it be cool to just block Singapore completely?" Like China's Great Firewall, but for my website. The primary goal was stopping scrapers from collecting data price monitoring bots, content thieves, aggressive crawlers.
