Title: Blocking good bots.
Last modified: July 25, 2023

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# Blocking good bots.

 *  Resolved [scruffy1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scruffy1/)
 * (@scruffy1)
 * [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-good-bots-2/)
 * Hi, The plugin is blocking good bots and there is no way to whitelist them when
   the plugin blocks in error.
 * Denied 17.241.227.11 Blocked Fake Browser (1)403GETMozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel
   Mac OS X 10_15_5) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1.1 Safari/
   605.1.15 (Applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot)

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 *  Plugin Author [sminozzi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sminozzi/)
 * (@sminozzi)
 * [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-good-bots-2/#post-16922305)
 * Hi Scruffy,
 * Try to go to bots table and deactivate Apple bot.
 * Cheers,
 * Bill
    -  This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by [sminozzi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sminozzi/).
    -  This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by [sminozzi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sminozzi/).
    -  This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by [sminozzi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sminozzi/).
 *  Plugin Author [sminozzi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sminozzi/)
 * (@sminozzi)
 * [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-good-bots-2/#post-16931614)
 * Hi Scruffy,
 * I hope you have resolved the issue. It has been a while since the last reply,
   so I’m going to mark this thread as resolved to help keep the forum organized.
   Feel free to post again if you have any further questions or feedback.
 * Thank you!
 * Best regards,
 * Bill

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 * Last reply from: [sminozzi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sminozzi/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-good-bots-2/#post-16931614)
 * Status: resolved