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Re:Blocked by Cloudflare by bombolo on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @04:28AM (#37060018)
You're assuming website owners are aware of the issue… How would they know? Cloudflare is just telling them it blocked a bunch of bots.
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Re:Blocked by Cloudflare by tick_tock_tick on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @05:41AM (#37060452)
They have before and after analytics.....
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Re:Blocked by Cloudflare by bombolo on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @09:12AM (#37062155)
They will presume the before traffic was bots? Unless they also see a drop in sales or ads they won't notice.
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Re:Blocked by Cloudflare by tick_tock_tick on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @01:41PM (#37066137)
I mean if sales didn't drop why would they care?
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Re:Blocked by Cloudflare by bombolo on Thursday August 10, 2023 @01:41AM (#37072385)
If it's a ebsite that doesn't sell anything they won't notice.
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