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    BrettC replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    When you IP ban CIDRs or wildcard ranges on XenForo, XenForo is configured to throw a 403 to the client. On the web server daemon, it...
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    BrettC replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    If I recall correctly, this one is a 50/50 item to block. When you see this particular UA, this is from users linking your website to...
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    BrettC 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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    BrettC reacted to ⭐ Alex ⭐'s post in the thread BBCode Task Lists with Like Like.
    How about something simple like: Proposed BBCode: Checked Item Checked Item Checked Item Unchecked item Unchecked item Unchecked item
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    BrettC replied to the thread The Meta Bot is causing insane traffic!!.
    If you want, you could use this (made the tool last week with some Grok AI coding)...
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    BrettC reacted to smallwheels's post in the thread The Meta Bot is causing insane traffic!! with Like Like.
    A simple filter expression for "meta-externalagent" in your .htaccess should do the job and block these requests. Other than that in...
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    BrettC reacted to Wildcat Media's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    One issue was that we had a site in addition to the forum and it wasn't uncommon for others to try to "borrow" our images that we'd...
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    BrettC replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Legit users tend to request that lil' relic of the past (favicon.ico). However, probing bots also will request that files existence and...
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    BrettC reacted to Anthony Parsons's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    Hotlinking stops websites loading images from your website, onto their own, using your bandwidth.
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    BrettC reacted to puterfixer's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    Yes and no. Without going too deep into the legalese of copyright: Forum members posting stuff are the copyright holders of their...
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    BrettC reacted to smallwheels's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    Once more: The question is what you want to achieve. If you want to block scrapers ASN blocks can be largely beneficial - not all...
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    BrettC reacted to puterfixer's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    With the free CF account limited to 5 rules, there would be room for optimization, depending on the action being taken and the right...
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    BrettC reacted to Anthony Parsons's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    You don't need to block countries or ASN's or IP's. You cannot beat residential proxies that way, because if you have US open, then that...
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    BrettC reacted to Alvin63's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    Also just wanted to say a huge thanks to @badabugs1 for all the great help setting up the .htaccess cloudflare secret key. It does work...
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    BrettC replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    That's an interesting find there. While it is true that linux uptake has been increasing over the years... it isn't anything like that...
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