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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Just Some Quick Tips On Blocking Bots.
    Check out this thread - I think you are not alone. I have a country block for 17 countries, multiple ASN blocks and a couple of rules...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Curious about Amazonbot. It hasn't appeared in my robots list for a long time. In fact a few years ago I disallowed it in robots.txt...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Thanks. I've seen no different to solve rates or the number of bots on the site so I'll remove that one again. Thanks.
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    I've left Robot Facebook/facebookexternalhit for now. But blocked the following in a Cloudflare block rule: meta-externalagent...
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    Alvin63 reacted to Wildcat Media's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    Here is traffic from a much smaller forum (which is also the oldest, dating to 1997). The origin looks a little lumpy but still well...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    That is a point - I have no real presence on facebook or other meta sites but do have the odd backlink. So bots could be hitting the...
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    Alvin63 reacted to smallwheels's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    In theory yes. However: I had so many visits using the user agent facebookexternalhit that my forum would be very frequently and...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    According to my server logs, the server itself is already blocking meta-externalagent with a 406. Which is interesting as I haven't...
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    Alvin63 reacted to Wildcat Media's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    From articles I've read about the negative parts of AI, some of the AI agents tend to weight opinion over fact; they'll target Reddit...
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    Alvin63 reacted to smallwheels's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    I've blocked meta's bots via .htaccess ages ago and also blocked meta's ASN32934 (which includes 57.141.*) completely. So no issue here...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    I just have Robot Facebook declaring itself quite a lot at the moment so will block it and the meta-agents, although your meta agents...
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    Alvin63 reacted to MapleOne's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    It overshadowed all other traffic combined and personally it gives me great pleasure to ban anything facebook. I don't much care to...
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    Alvin63 reacted to Levina's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    The meta-externalagent bot is very intrusive. I blocked it in Cloudflare, together with other AI scrapers. I'm on Cloud too and I used...
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    Alvin63 reacted to MapleOne's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    I blocked The 57.141.* was taking all my resources for weeks, so I banned the entire facebook/meta ip block and have not had a...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    I had noticed Facebook bot was on a lot but it was the mass of anonymous guests that were the issue on my site. Or are you saying that...
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