# Google isn't able to crawl my app-ads.txt file

**URL:** https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/google-isnt-able-to-crawl-my-app-ads-txt-file/76165
**Category:** Hosting Support
**Created:** [May 14, 2023, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/google-isnt-able-to-crawl-my-app-ads-txt-file/76165 "2023-05-14T17:56:48Z")
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### Author: ![ChrisPAR](https://forum.infinityfree.com/user_avatar/forum.infinityfree.com/chrispar/32/8743_2.png) [@ChrisPAR](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/ChrisPAR)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2023, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/google-isnt-able-to-crawl-my-app-ads-txt-file/76165/3 "2023-05-14T18:04:17Z")

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Can you also please mention what you’re trying to use and where you’re getting this error?  
I’m going to take a guess and say it could be this, but it can’t be verified for sure without more info:

> [@Ensuring only web browsers can access your website](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/ensuring-only-web-browsers-can-access-your-website/49353):
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> InfinityFree is a website hosting service. That means that the hosting accounts we provided are intended for hosting websites. Websites contain pages that are accessed through web browsers. InfinityFree is not intended to be used for file sharing, API hosting, database hosting or background tasks/tools. To help enforce this, free hosting enforces a security system that makes sure that anyone trying to access your website is using a normal web browser. This is done by checking whether the web br…

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