Rating: 5 stars
使用後、かなりの数の悪質なボットをブロックしてもらいました。
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This plugin was the only one that was able to keep my website live and VPS server up, because of thousand of bots requests per minute. It was a lifesaver! And the support helped me with a case faster than a paid support does.
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It ate all my Bandwidth ??
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After a few days the site show a loading icon and the site and back end are not accessible anymore.
Don’t use this plugin
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I have a site configured in a way that makes similar plugins fail. This one works like a charm. When I did encounter a problem, I filed a ticket. I got an acknowledgement in less than 20 minutes and by the following morning, the plugin had been updated and the issue fully resolved. Bravo!
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Install Bad Bots and be super annoyed because the plugin wants to install an addition. No matter where you look in wp/admin.
No, it’s not worth it. Let them bad bots amuse themselves on your site.
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Apensa de aparentar uma boa ferramenta e ter dado um trabalho para equipe de desenvolvimento criar, ao instalar a mesma ela n?o me passou muita confian?a sobre seu funcionamento e viabilidade, nem se realizava o que prometia.
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Installiert ohne Nachfrage noch weitere Plugins (“Antihacker”). Das hohe und ausreichende Memorylimit via wp-config will er nicht erkennen. Vermutlich will er, dass man das dafür gedachte Plugin installiert.
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I had not realized it was bots killing my websites until I tried your plugin. The plugin blocks about 20,000 bots a day and now my sites are running the fastest they ever have! Thank you!
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This is probably the worst plugin i have ever installed.
When i installed it, a SECOND plugin was also installed named Antihacker something. NEVER asked for it, nor i gave permission for it.
Then i was informed that my site/server has issues from the Antihacker plugin RED line. But the errors were from the Antihacker plugin Deprecated PHP “trim” or something. Going from 8.2 to 8.1 didn’t help.
I was able to unistall Antihacker and i was curious about the actual plugin. But i was bombarded with notices and banners and things.
And i uninstalled it. This plugin shouldn’t exist here in its current state.
Does www.ads-software.com allows to plugins to install other plugins without the user knowing that? Without permission?
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This plugin helped me at first, but it forced me to install another plugin that installed against my will and didn’t even work, so I finally uninstalled it and use the competing software, which is less intrusive and respects its users.
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it is great, but I do wonder if some of the things seem to overlap with other plugins and I am never sure if there might be clashes between them, or which I should have on or not. having said that, very happy with the plugin overall, and it is one of the key ones I recommend you install when I set up a new site
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I don’t understand why the developer of this plugin annoys its users with repetitive notifications on wp-admin. It’s totally stupid and counter-productive as we end hating him and we either uninstall this plugin or add a piece of code to kill these annoying spammy notifications.
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very annoying and annoying recurring messages (a least every month) to adjust your level ….what is the purpose of this? It almost looks like bullying behaviour.
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I can’t say whether this plugin actually works. After leaving it activated for a couple of days, I found it had blocked one IP address. I don’t know what to make of that.
The reason I uninstalled this plugin was because the author urged me to go “Pro,” buy the more complete version.
I fully understand that software developers want to get paid just as anyone else does. I’m willing to pay for certain programs, apps, and plugins. What I found unacceptable, though, was the insistence.
There are many features you can activate or leave inactive, which you can access via a dashboard. Many of these features are only available with the Pro version. This fact isn’t always apparent as you’re working through the options. I would have preferred to know right off which features require “Pro.” I often had to try to activate them before I could find out.
This may sound trivial, but it felt a bit sketchy. Kind of “bait and switch.” I don’t like being teased in this way, so I removed the plugin.
I believe this plugin could have great potential; but I don’t care for the way it tried to push the “Pro” level. I uninstalled it.
Rating: 5 stars
Très bonne extension pour stopper de nombreux indésirables !!!
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It blocks the troll bots that have become more than a nuisance. This is what I wanted and what I received. The definition of a good transaction.
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I bought the premium version of the plugin in April 2022.
Its a terrible plugin although support is responsive but not helpful.
In May 2022, I noticed that my website(s) have started to have loading issues and blocking legitimate traffic including mine.
Bill Minozzi from support listed plugin conflict as one of the reasons, pointing to Jetpack and Sucuri. Basically he is saying Jetpack and Sucuri should fix the conflict (if any) with StopBadBots?
So I reduced the protection of StopBadBots and the issue went to minimum although its still blocking legitimate traffic.
On 12-Oct, an automated email from WordPress says that one of my site has crashed. Below is a partial error detail:
“Howdy!
Since WordPress 5.2 there is a built-in feature that detects when a plugin or theme causes a fatal error on your site, and notifies you with this automated email.
In this case, WordPress caught an error with one of your plugins, StopBadBots.`
An error of type E_ERROR was caused in line 2931 of the file /home/xxx/wp-content/plugins/stopbadbots/functions/functions.php. Error message: Uncaught TypeError: count(): Argument #1 ($value) must be of type Countable|array, null given in /home/xxx/wp-content/plugins/stopbadbots/functions/functions.php:293”
I believe the error was then fixed with a plugin update 2 days later but I stopped using the plugin since it crashed the site.
This is a real user experience.
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All WP sites should use this in order to block unwanted bots. You might need to be a little tech savvy in order to fine tune it and stop it from blocking some webshop payment plugins, Ahrefs, Manage WP etc but it’s easy when you know what to do. I’m using it on about 50 sites. Excellent support!
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Hi i was using cloudflare but it was not able to block bots from my site. But after using this plug-in all bots are blocked I have allowed some bots like search engines. And this is working absolutely fine thanks
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Killed 5 sites, 1 needed reinstall.
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This Plugin is absolutly required in this times
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The graphs speak for themselves, thank you ??
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I’m self-taught so I’ll admit that the multitude of options and warnings kind of scared me. But after I took a deep breath, I was able to see how to use all of the features and it’s amazing and helpful! I feel much more confident that we’re not going to be hassled anymore by bot traffic, hackers, etc.
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Ok, I bought this plug-in because I thought it would work.
1. No bots were blocked. Any nonsense crawler could still get to my site
2. self test with crawler “emulate as google bot” with wrong IP: undetected.
3. the logfile shows no blocked bots for days
4. then “Bill” came and disassembled my site with his plugin for WordPress analysis. He told me to lower my RAM to 512 MB. What a nonsense. Where does it say anything about limiting RAM, that no more than 512 MB is allowed for WordPress, for a fullpagecache site on NVME highspeed server.
5. he then said that my site is not configured properly. Nonsense. WordPress sent me warning after warning that its WordPress plugin for analysis is buggy. GTMETRIX then sent me reports that my A++ performance rating was suddenly D. 6.
My Server is a Premium Server! At premium Hosting, no cheap 5 Dollar Hosting.
6. in the backend I could not do anything, the page was then dead. It did not help, I had to import a backup from the day before.
This plugin is not recommended by me.
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After activating the plugin, check your site in incognito mode.
My site was down for 2 days because of this plugin.
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I used to received a lot of scam/ad emails, but after installing StopBadBots, they are not bothering me anymore.
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Sometime plugin crash and caused 500 http status error. Gave up on using plugin. Currently using htaccess directly for lighter and easier solution.
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I was desperately trying to save my WP website in the beginning with my hosting’s help against the relentless attacks of the intruders by brute force login. At first, without my knowledge, they successfully steal my website and I can not log in to it suddenly. After gaining back the login entry to my site I discovered I was no longer the user of my site it goes by another name. Through my hosting, they were able to take back the ownership of my website from the hands of the intruder for me. After that, they keep on trying to gain entry and blocking me not to be able to log in but my hosting was very helpful to assist me to enable me to log in.. Until I used the Stop Bad bots plugin plus for full protection, I also add the Anti Hacker premium both from the same company. Now I am back to confidence because the fear of losing my website from the intruders is gone. Though still keep trying to gain entry relentlessly by bots brute-force login but Stop Bad bots is knocking them away. Thank you Bill Minozzi. You have an excellent service of your product even though Stop Bad Bot is for free it works amazing.
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Think I recognized a spike in performance. And I see a ton of blocked request from useless resource vampire bots.
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