BlockBots detects and blocks AI bots, click fraud, VPNs & proxies in real time. Protect your ad budget from invalid traffic and fake clicks. Start free.

Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm excited to introduce BlockBots. We built BlockBots after seeing how much website traffic is no longer human. Bots, scrapers, VPNs, proxies, click fraud, and AI crawlers waste ad budgets, consume server resources, and steal content. Most website owners don't realize how much of their traffic is actually fake until it's already affecting performance, analytics, or revenue. BlockBots helps detect and block unwanted traffic in real time while allowing legitimate visitors and trusted search engines through. With BlockBots you can: ✅ Block bots, scrapers, VPNs, and proxies ✅ Reduce fake clicks and invalid traffic ✅ Protect content from AI crawlers and data scrapers ✅ Stop brute-force and automated attacks ✅ Improve traffic quality and site performance ✅ Integrate quickly with WordPress and other websites We've focused on making bot protection simple to deploy without requiring a complicated security setup. I'd love to hear your feedback: How are you currently dealing with bots and fake traffic? Have AI scrapers become a problem for your website? What traffic protection tools are you using today? Thanks for checking out BlockBots, and I'll be here all day to answer questions! 🚀

BlockBots — filter traffic by geo, language, and bots. No code changes.

Every site gets traffic it never asked for: crawlers, scrapers, VPN sessions, regions you don't sell to. The usual fix is a pile of .htaccess rules or a hand-rolled User-Agent regex that nobody maintains and everybody is afraid to

touch.

BlockBots moves that into campaigns. One snippet per site — everything after that is configured from the dashboard, no

deploy.

What's new in this release:

🤖 Captcha instead of a hard block for VPN and suspicious traffic

The choice used to be binary: let it through or cut it off. Now questionable visits can be handed a captcha — real

people behind a VPN get through, automation doesn't. One toggle per campaign.

📋 New list interface for geo, languages, and bots

Dropdowns are gone, replaced by a twin-select: catalog on the left, your selection on the right, search on both sides,

add-all and remove-all in the middle. Every list works in allow or exclude mode via a switch next to it. An empty

list means "allow everything," so you only configure what you actually restrict.

🔄 The bot catalog is live now

It's pulled from the maintained dataset instead of a hardcoded array. Stale patterns left over

from older versions no longer ride along silently in your saved settings.

Setup takes a few minutes: create a campaign, point it at your domain, paste the snippet. Changes apply on the fly.

Where we're stuck right now — and where you can help

Our WordPress plugin is still sitting in the review queue. It's built, it works, and we can't ship it through the

official directory yet. For the largest group of people who'd benefit from this, the easiest install path is the one

we can't offer.

So for now: WordPress users can run BlockBots via the standalone snippet, which works the same way and takes about as

long to set up. We'd rather say that plainly than pretend the plugin is around the corner.

If you've been through WordPress plugin review — especially for anything that touches request filtering or external

APIs — we'd genuinely like to hear what tripped you up. And if the standalone route is a dealbreaker for you, say so

in the comments. That tells us how hard to push on this.