Bad bots will always ignore your robots.txt settings and skip crawl-delay value, but not only the bots created by spammers do that.
SEO and Data Collectors Bots owned and produced by famous companies that provide SEO services do the same thing and can cause high CPU usage, slow down the server response, and lose bandwidth.
Using the Cloudflare firewall Super Bot Fight Mode feature will not stop all well-known bots with bad behavior.
So sometimes we need to catch the Bad Bots manually, and here is a simple way to do that.
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