How Can I Block Requests from China to My App?

Question

I have an API that is somewhat popular (10,000+ requests/day). After 10 requests per day from an IP address I return a message telling the user they need to cough of some cash i

Answer 1

Just block the entire china IP range: in .htaccess

#China
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