RSS Feed/News xf_session_activity table overflow due to aggressive site-scraping (AI training?) bots.

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To the brilliant authors of XenForo:

XenForo has a problem when its RAM-based (by default) "xf_session_activity" table overflows catastrophically and brings down its XenForo site.

Many XenForo users and sites are now complaining and drowning under some recent activity that also hit GRC's main forums site. The troublesome queries are coming from an extremely large private, probably residential, proxy network, making IP-based blocking impossible. Thankfully, I found a addon by 'FX' that...

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