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martin82 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: 13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted

I'm surprised this works at all.

What sysadmin is so naive to rely on the Googlebot useragent??

Doesn't everyone fetch the official list of Googlebot IPs and then add those to a whitelist?

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