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Keeping Pinterest in an Ocean of AWS Bots

Big Weed told me to not ban Pinterest. While I am not a huge Pinterest fan, she is/was so I listen to her. The problem is that Pinterest is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud host provider infamous for hosting bad bots. Here are the IP ranges to ban AWS but keep Pinterest coming back.

# AWS 52.192.0.0 – 52.223.255.255 52.192.0.0/11
deny from 52.192.0.0/13 52.200.0.0/16 52.201.0.0/17 52.201.128.0/18 52.201.192.0/19 52.201.224.0/20 52.201.240.0/21
# Pinterest 52.201.248.0/24 52.201.249.0/24
deny from 52.201.250.0/23 52.201.252.0/22 52.202.0.0/15 52.204.0.0/14 52.208.0.0/12

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