How to block DuckDuckGo users?

Alf85

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• Apr 25, 2024

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Is there a way to block DuckDuckGo users? I have about 2000 of those users x month and they only pay the ads 4USD every 1000....
If they used another search engine such as Bing or Yahoo, I would earn 20/25 per 1000...

 

IM Dude

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• Apr 25, 2024

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You can't if you wanna keep your pages/posts indexed on bing. Duckduckgo takes results from bing.

 

itz_styx

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you can add a script that checks the referer and if itsfrom duckduckgo send them to a 404 page or something.
you can also do this via .htaccess

 

Alf85

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It is that with DuckDuckGo they see irrelevant advertising and less. The truth is my sites are not charitable entities xD