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> The rule has also been expanded to include more signatures of AI bots that do not follow the rules.

The Block AI Bots rule on the Super Bot Fight Mode page does filter out most bot traffic. I was getting 10x the traffic from bots than I was from users.

It definitely doesn't rely on robots.txt or user agent. I had to write a page rule bypass just to let my own tooling work on my website after enabling it.






How many of those "bots" you are filtering are actually bots and how many are regular users buttflare has misidentified as bots?

Pretty simple to see this if you've run a website: compare your analytics pre-bot to post-bot to post-bot-blocker.

There is a clear moment where you land on AI bot radar. For my large forum, it was a month ago.

Overnight, "72 users are viewing General Discussion" turned into "1720 users".

40% requests being cached turned into 3% of requests are cached.




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