Bot Fight Mode advice

What is the name of the domain?

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What is the error number?

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What is the error message?

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What is the issue you’re encountering

need advice

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

Hi, does anyone know if I enable Bot Fight Mode, will it block Facebook, X (Twitter), and other bots that come from sharing links on social media platforms?

Was the site working with SSL prior to adding it to Cloudflare?

Yes

What is the current SSL/TLS setting?

Flexible

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

Hi, does anyone know if I enable Bot Fight Mode, will it block Facebook, X (Twitter), and other bots that come from sharing links on social media platforms?

What is the name of the domain?

Hi, does you know if I enable Bot Fight Mode, will it block Facebook, X (Twitter), and other bots that come from sharing links on social media platforms Or search engine indexing bots or Google AdSense verification bots?

What is the error number?

Hi, does you know if I enable Bot Fight Mode, will it block Facebook, X (Twitter), and other bots that come from sharing links on social media platforms Or search engine indexing bots or Google AdSense verification bots?

What is the error message?

Hi, does you know if I enable Bot Fight Mode, will it block Facebook, X (Twitter), and other bots that come from sharing links on social media platforms Or search engine indexing bots or Google AdSense verification bots?

What is the issue you’re encountering

Hi, does you know if I enable Bot Fight Mode, will it block Facebook, X (Twitter), and other bots that come from sharing links on social media platforms Or search engine indexing bots or Google AdSense verification bots?

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

Hi, does you know if I enable Bot Fight Mode, will it block Facebook, X (Twitter), and other bots that come from sharing links on social media platforms Or search engine indexing bots or Google AdSense verification bots?

Was the site working with SSL prior to adding it to Cloudflare?

Yes

What is the current SSL/TLS setting?

Flexible

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

Hi, does you know if I enable Bot Fight Mode, will it block Facebook, X (Twitter), and other bots that come from sharing links on social media platforms Or search engine indexing bots or Google AdSense verification bots?

The Bot Fight Mode won’t allow you to do any kind of granularity, and cannot be recommended, except in extreme situations, where you need to mitigating attacks from bots, and where there is no alternative ways to do that.

It may block bots from various platforms.

If you don’t want a such possibility, then you don’t want Bot Fight Mode, but any of the alternatives, such as e.g.:

  1. Create your own WAF rules exclude Verified bots.

  2. Create your own WAF rules, where you only block traffic that you have actually identified to be bad for your website.

  3. Super Bot Fight Mode, which offers much more granularity.

No, but it will block embeddings