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    Alvin63 reacted to Wildcat Media's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    Our largest forum has been contacted for that reason. Usually it's some obscure photo, by some obscure person nobody has ever heard of...
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    Alvin63 reacted to puterfixer's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    Well now that I opened this topic, one more important comment/warning. Members are responsible for the contents they post, including any...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Could someone give an opinion on the .htaccess code below please (haven't added it yet). After my surge to 1400 in the guest list...
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    Alvin63 reacted to Levina's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    Last night I was looking at the bots hammering /misc/cookies, their number one target on my site, looking for commonalities. I found...
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    Alvin63 reacted to Levina's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    Bot are really busy at the moment. Cloudflare is doing good work but can't stop those that view actual content so 1350 guests in the...
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    Alvin63 reacted to Wildcat Media's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    I'm not confident CF blocks everything it says it does. Never have been. That is why I disabled search for non-member. I still have...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    You can include search in a rule though. I have a rule for what’s new, search and members - excludes xf_cookie, excludes known bots...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    I've joined the misc/cookies club. As that is not a field in my whats/new, search, members rule, the bots going for misc/cookies (which...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    I spoke too soon :rolleyes: Numbers gone right up again to 1500 - which isn't so bad as long as they don't get up into the 2000's...
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    Alvin63 reacted to Wildcat Media's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    An interesting visual thing I noticed with analytics. From 6am this morning: Yesterday around 8pm: I'm calling it "CF Asleep at...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Do you mean "Whats New"? That's where 98% of my bots go - so they can scrape all new posts. I don't know what you mean about deleting...
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    Alvin63 reacted to nuriozkan44's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    English: I received an AdSense traffic warning specifically because of these bots. I do my best to delete them whenever I can. They tend...
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    Alvin63 reacted to Wildcat Media's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    I feel better leaving it off, vs. hoping a CF rule might catch it. (I still can't trust CF rules 100%.) Visitors can use Google if...
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    Alvin63 reacted to Levina's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    Translation: I received an AdSense traffic warning specifically because of these bots. I am doing my best to block bots from accessing...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Yes I think precursor does give bot scores - the trouble is you can’t do anything with them without paying $5000 a month it seems...
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