Suspicious-looking activity

I noticed pageviews from China / Russia / another location. Should I be worried?

PhotoDeck logs include automated robots we don’t know about and that manage to pass the antibot challenge -- bot creators learn over time how to circumvent barriers, so a few always slip through (please refer to the help on bots and website protection for more details!). Having one’s site crawled by automated robots is not by itself an indicator of suspicious activity -- after all, the Internet is public. If image theft is a concern, make sure you have an adequate watermark on your images. Your private galleries and high-res files are always protected.

Can I block visits from country X?

No. It is not possible to reliably know where a visitor is located, and IP-address based filters only give a false sense of security. It is easy to spoof one’s IP address / location, for example using a virtual private network (VPN), which is nowadays commonplace.