Title: Does 403 really mean broken?
Last modified: April 7, 2022

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# Does 403 really mean broken?

 *  [billbennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billbennett/)
 * (@billbennett)
 * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-403-really-mean-broken/)
 * I get a lot of 403 ‘errors’ when I use Link Checker. If I click on the links 
   they work fine, so they’re not really broken are they?
 * You see them a lot on media and news sites.
 * 403 usually indicates the site is set up to stop bots, and, I guess, tools like
   Link Checker from browsing content, probably because they fear being scraped.
 * Are they really a problem that we need to worry about or can we ignore them?

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