Honeypot Trap Incidents & Automatic Bans
Scrapers that blindly follow invisible DOM links (/_sw_trap/...) are instantly classified and quarantined for 7 days.
How the Honey-Link Defense Operates
When genuine users browse your site, the dynamic anchor tag injected before </body> is completely invisible (hidden via CSS display:none !important and marked with rel="nofollow" and aria-hidden="true"). Genuine human users never click it. Any automated bot or crawler that follows the link is definitively flagged and quarantined at Cloudflare edge with an automatic 7-day ban.
Quarantined Bots Caught in Honeypots
3 Active Incidents| Offending Client IP | ASN / Hosting Network | User-Agent Header | Quarantine Status | Tripped At |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 198.51.100.44 | AS14061 (DigitalOcean LLC) | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; UndisclosedSpider/1.0; +http://bot-proxy.net) | Banned (7d Quarantined) | 11:28:30 AM |
| 45.33.20.19 | AS63949 (Linode / Akamai) | Python/3.11 aiohttp/3.8.5 | Banned (7d Quarantined) | 9:55:30 AM |
| 104.244.75.13 | AS24940 (Hetzner Online GmbH) | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 HeadlessChrome/124.0.0.0 | Banned (7d Quarantined) | 7:40:30 AM |