It's useful in different ways, for example the online list is more accurate. One way I have used it is to create additional adsbot group. This allows me to grant access to Googles adbot to bot restricted forums.
It's useful in different ways, for example the online list is more accurate. One way I have used it is to create additional adsbot group. This allows me to grant access to Googles adbot to bot restricted forums.
No, I have a few forums that are blocked to bots through robots.txt and phpBB permissions. All are available to public with the exception of one that is available to registered users. I think I know where you are going with this and I'm not concerned with someone spoofing the user agent to get access since they don't need to do that to begin with.
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User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Allow: /
Back when this feature was added, some 14 years ago, bots were believed to be unable to handle the SIDs. Therefore, the main feature as designed is to forcibly remove the SID parameter for the bot user group.Frank Rizzo wrote: ↑Thu Jul 12, 2018 11:08 am Hmm. If serving bots a different 'view' to regular users is such an issue why do phpbb offer it as a configuration option?