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what software?

Are you referring to blockhosts? It does not block whole regions, just single hosts. Therefore blockhosts will not any impact in blocking any web crawlers - possible of course, but unlikely.

If you generally blocking large ranges of IP addresses using some other software, then, sure, you could also block legitimate web crawlers.

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