My plugin blocks old and suspicious browsers (user agents). It also generates statistics. So far this month, 1038 out of 1134 browsers have been blocked (92%). 745 browsers visited my website for the first time this month. Of these, 719 (97%) were blocked! That really surprised me.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wimb-and-block/

#wordpress #badbots

Block old browser versions and suspicious browsers

With the help of WhatIsMyBrowser the plugin detects old and bad browsers and denies them access. A special robots.txt denies crawling by bad bots.

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Mein Plugin blockt alte und verdächtige Browser (User-Agenten). Es erstellt auch Statistiken. Diesen Monat wurden bisher 1038 von 1134 Browsern geblockt (92%). 745 Browser besuchten meine Webseite in diesem Monat das erste Mal. Davon wurden 719 (97%) geblockt! Das hat mich dann doch überrascht.

https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/wimb-and-block/

#wordpress #badbots

Blocke alte Browser-Versionen und verdächtige Browser

Mit Hilfe von WhatIsMyBrowser erkennt das Plugin veraltete und schädliche Browser und verweigert ihnen den Zugriff. Eine spezielle robots.txt-Datei verhindert das Crawling durch schädliche Bots.

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Laut dem «Bad Bot Report» von Imperva sind rund 1/3 des Internettraffics allein auf «Bad Bots» zurückzuführen. Die Anzahl & Qualität von #BadBots dürfte in nächster Zeit stark steigen (& damit die #Blackout -Gefahr), denn dank der KI kann jede/jeder auch ohne Programmierfähigkeiten #Bots erstellen.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:snbm6etjtqnajjmp3sgu4575/post/3m7sdmttdpc2p
How to block AI Crawler Bots using robots.txt file

Here is how to block generative AI (OpenAI ChatGPT, Google Bard, CCBot Crawler bots) using robots.txt to protect your content.

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Hva slags bothelvette er det på pubeurope.com som lenker til nyheter fra europesays.com hvor artiklene er stjålet fra andre aviser?

Ser at mastodon.social har softblokket dem.

#Norsktut #Allheimen #BadBots

So, someone in the issue made me realize that some bots impersonate the user agents of big actors, such as Googlebot. I checked my webserver logs and found a lot of them actually!

I liked the challenge, so I just wrote an article about how to do this in less than 40 SLOC 🏆
https://reaction.ppom.me/filters/useragent-impersonators.html

#reactionrust #bots #badbots #google #googlebot

User-Agent impersonators - Reaction wiki

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GitHub - mariobreskic/apache-badbots: My configuration for my server to deal with bad bots

My configuration for my server to deal with bad bots - mariobreskic/apache-badbots

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Working with fail2ban. I am always torn between allowing bots, allowing some, disallowing all.
Time to make up my mind reading this article https://www.plesk.com/blog/product-technology/avoid-high-cpu-load-block-hackers-bad-bots-effectively/
#badbots
How to Avoid High CPU Load & Block Bad Bots with Plesk

Learn how to effectively reduce CPU usage and keep bad bots and hackers away from your websites using Plesk Cgroups Manager and Fail2Ban.

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