Right now we have over 300 "guests" viewing our site. I'd like to block the bad bots and the spammers trying to register, but I'm not sure sure where to start. If someone can give me a quote that would be great.
XF 2 Need help with stopping bots/spammers
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Assume you have a robots.txt? Either way it's the ones that ignore that are that tend to be the problem. Have you noticed any in particular that are hogging. Common ones are bytedance and bytespider. Someone on here helped me block those in HT access and the numbers dropped significantly after that.
With spammers it's more a case of posting than being guests. Cloudflare Turnstile is a good option for that. IE preventing them registering
With spammers it's more a case of posting than being guests. Cloudflare Turnstile is a good option for that. IE preventing them registering
Yes i have robots.txt. I'm not sure tbh
I installed Cloudfare Turnstile and still the same @rambler.ru spammers are signing up. I've blocked their email but it still creates an account which is annoying
did you have any luck with this?
The same thing has been happening to us recently, we'd have like 200~ real users in the past 24 hours, and online there will always be 200-500 "guests" we reduce the "online" time to 5 minutes because we had some errors, they don't seem like normal users or bot trying to sign up, they are from all different locations mostly Asian side, some from VPN's etc. viewing unknown pages
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The same thing has been happening to us recently, we'd have like 200~ real users in the past 24 hours, and online there will always be 200-500 "guests" we reduce the "online" time to 5 minutes because we had some errors, they don't seem like normal users or bot trying to sign up, they are from all different locations mostly Asian side, some from VPN's etc. viewing unknown pages
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ispatchError\"@Martyn : This topic has been dicussed back and forth over the last month in countless threads. These are bots that use resident proxies to scrape your content for training of AI models. Robots.txt won't help at all and neither will Cloudflare for the most part. The issue is not easy to deal with and it highly depends from the character of your forum, the locations you audience comes from and the technical skills and possibilties you have what can be done. Either way it is a lot of work and very time consuming. The most active thread about the topic is this:
thanks, I search the forums and this topic was at the top, assumed it was the most recent one >.<@Martyn : This topic has been dicussed back and forth over the last month in countless threads. These are bots that use resident proxies to scrape your content for training of AI models. Robots.txt won't help at all and neither will Cloudflare for the most part. The issue is not easy to deal with and it highly depends from the character of your forum, the locations you audience comes from and the technical skills and possibilties you have what can be done. Either way it is a lot of work and very time consuming. The most active thread about the topic is this:
Will have a look
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