MrBlack OP wrote on December 23, 2020 at 2:25 AM

Reply to comment by self in How does a captcha prevent a DDOS attack? by MrBlack

Oh okay I guess that makes a bit more sense. I always thought a DDOS attack had to have a specific port or webpage as a target. But I don't know how one would be sent through the tor network and I dont even really know how they're sent through the regular internet other than it's just a bunch of requests from different locations.

RichardButte wrote on December 23, 2020 at 8:49 PM

That's basically it, all those request clogs up them internet pipes.

Regular sites often use CDN's (server networks to share the load), and a clearnet solution would have one server sort out illegitimate requests and serve CAPTCHA's while a different server that doesn't see any of the unwanted traffic host the site.