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How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with.htaccess

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all you have is the web statistics provided by your web host or a free web statistics and analytics service you wont be able to get the information you need to block the bot. Once youve located the entries that belong to the bot, look for the IP address and the user agent string. You need to have a specific bot that you wish to block.

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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

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The start of the argument is that you need to separate using the Internet into “infrastructure & cloud services&# (basically the protocols of the Internet such as HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, etc. + web storage, elastic computing) from how you consume the Internet as a user (the front end – HTML).

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Their developers are just too fucking lazy to understand such protocols that every respected service on the Web (search engines…) obeys. It’s hosted by Rackspace, which is a hosting service that obviously doesn’t care much about its reputation. It can get worse when a URI gets retweeted often.