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Re:Blocked by Cloudflare by drivebycomment on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @11:18PM (#37058328)
So are you declaring nobody should be in that business of bot protection then?
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Re:Blocked by Cloudflare by account42 on Thursday August 10, 2023 @04:50AM (#37073623)
Yes.

Blocking all crawlers except Google bot is itself a problem.

There should not be any bot protection, only abuse (e.g. DDOS) protection. Block disruptive behaviors, not fingerprints.

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