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# pyright: basic
"""Some bot protection / rate limitation
+To monitore rate limits and protect privacy the IP addresses are getting stored
+with a hash so the limiter plugin knows who to block. A redis database is
+needed to store the hash values.
+
Enable the plugin in ``settings.yml``:
- ``server.limiter: true``