feat: replace DNS-based bot verification with Cloudflare verified bot category#2067
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The current bot verification performs manual reverse DNS + forward DNS lookups via Cloudflare's DoH endpoint to verify legitimate bots (Googlebot, Bingbot, DuckDuckBot). This is complex, slow (two network requests per incoming request), and limited to only three bot patterns.
Cloudflare already indicates whether a request comes from a verified bot. This is more reliable, covers a much wider range of legitimate bots, and has zero latency cost since Cloudflare computes it at the edge.
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