

So the question is whether there has been any change in Cliqzbot activity in recent months. I must have authorized them at some time, because htaccess says !bad_range (meaning that they come from assorted server farms that are generally home to bad actors). The new Brave Search engine is based on this. Brave took over Cliqz, a shareholding of Hubert Burda Media, and Mozilla. As a result of the turmoil of the Corona crisis. This was made possible with technology developed in Germany. (b) I tend to doubt 5.116, since all I see from there is a scant handful of obvious robots (the kind who ask for wp-admin, or who claim to be MSIE 6).

(a) since the beginning of 2021, I have not met anything containing the string rave *
