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title: "Should I block all datacenter IP addresses?"
description: "Be careful. Plenty of unwanted automation comes from hosting ranges, but so do services you depend on. Googlebot and AdsBot-Google operate from Google infrastructure, and blocking them costs you..."
url: https://blockclickfraud.com/faq-items/should-i-block-all-datacenter-ip-addresses/
date: 2026-09-20
modified: 2026-09-20
author: "Block Click Fraud"
type: faq
lang: en
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# Should I block all datacenter IP addresses?

Be careful. Plenty of unwanted automation comes from hosting ranges, but so do services you depend on. Googlebot and AdsBot-Google operate from Google infrastructure, and blocking them costs you organic indexing and breaks your ad landing page checks. A blunt rule aimed at all server traffic tends to do more damage than the fraud it was written to stop.

Should I block all datacenter IP addresses?[Block Click Fraud](https://blockclickfraud.com/author/block-click-fraud/)2026-09-20T07:10:48+00:00