MAnaging BOTS

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Thank you.

Hi, That’s a valid user agent value. If you don’t want the plugin to capture the user agent value in the logs menu, do the following:

• Go to the settings menu of the plugin.
• Tick the ‘Do Not Capture User Agent’ checkbox.
• Save the settings.

The plugin won’t save those user agent values in the logs menu after that.

Hi @mra13

The documentation for this setting says:

Use this if you do not want to capture the User Agent value of the browser when they download an item.

Simple Download Monitor

When I asked ChatGPT about this string it said:

Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.2; +https://openai.com/gptbot)

This user agent string provides specific information about the browser and the bot accessing a web page. Let’s break it down:

• Mozilla/5.0: This part is a legacy token that indicates compatibility with older web standards.
• AppleWebKit/537.36: This specifies the rendering engine used, which is WebKit (the same engine used by Safari and Chrome).
• (KHTML, like Gecko): This indicates that the browser is compatible with KHTML (the engine used by Konqueror) and Gecko (the engine used by Firefox).
• compatible: This suggests that the bot is designed to be compatible with various web standards.
• GPTBot/1.2: This identifies the specific bot, in this case, GPTBot version 1.2.
• +https://openai.com/gptbot: This provides a URL where more information about the bot can be found.

So, I don’t understand your response. A user agent string will be fine – for a user. But from the above it is saying this is from a bot and not a user. So, what concept am I not understanding here?

Looks like I misunderstood your question. I thought you were asking about the user agent value being incorrect and you don’t want to capture the user agent data.

I think you are saying that you don’t want chatgpt agent to be able to download the item on your site? Is my understanding correct?

If I understand your question now, my new answer is that our plugin cannot do that at the moment.

Put it this way. It would be nice to filter the log to USER downloaded content. HUMANS. Clearer?

We will try our best to keep improving the function, however, it’s important to acknowledge the following:

This plugin may not always be able to keep pace with the rapidly evolving landscape of bots. Effective bot prevention should ideally be implemented at the server level, using firewalls, or through solutions like Google reCAPTCHA. You can enable Google reCAPTCHA in the plugin’s settings.

Additionally, if you have specific code enhancements in mind, we welcome you to submit a pull request to our GitHub repository for review.

I do have reCaptcha 3 active and I understand that your plugin with not work with my reCaptcvha that I have running on my site.