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by dormento 121 days ago
Has anyone done research on the topic of trying to block these bots by claiming to host illegal material or talking about certain topics? I mean having a few entries in your robots like "/kill-president", "/illegal-music-downloads", "/casino-lucky-tiger-777" etc.
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Yea I can’t see how that could backfire in any way
FB crawler is used for national security reasons at times. The first would probably make it more active.