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https://wordpress.org/plugins/blackhole-bad-bots/
https://perishablepress.com/blackhole-bad-bots/
Bots trigger a block trap when they ignore a robots.txt block request.
REMOVED – Erratically blocks The Internet Archive Wayback Machine
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2022-07-13 – Removed
- Erratically blocks The Internet Archive Wayback Machine
- I went through a lot of troubleshooting steps, and the only thing that would work was whitelisting the useragent, at which time I don’t see how this plugin is useful at all since a bot can trivially spoof a useragent.
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2020-11-15 – 3.0
- Reset the settings, and cleared the IP whitelist.
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2020-01-26 — Started using this.
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updated to 3.0