For example, if you wanted to stop users from accessing your website via Google or Microsoft Bing by adding the keywords "Bing" or "Google" to the URL, you could do so by adding those keywords to the URL's query string.

For example, if you wanted to stop users from accessing your website via Google or Microsoft Bing by adding the keywords "Bing" or "Google" to the URL, you could do so by adding those keywords to the URL's query string. Plugin developers eventually fixed this issue by releasing the 1.5.4 version which now enables the main feature of the plugin even in case when the URL did not contain any keywords.

What is a query string?

A query string is a string of data that is appended to the end of a URL. For example, if you visited https://www.google.com/search?q=penthouse you would see this URL in the address bar:
https://www.google.com/search?q=penthouse
Just after "q=" there is an equal sign (=) and then what follows are the keywords "Bing" or "Google".

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Published on: 09/19/2022 14:15:00 UTC
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