Bots and AI crawlers still get through the filter
Bots, including AI crawlers, keep reaching the site and using bandwidth because the plugin misses many of them.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 19 May 2024 · last reported 25 June 2026
What's going wrong
Several site owners report that this bot-blocking plugin lets large numbers of crawlers through.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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