diff --git a/lib/middleware/request_tracker.rb b/lib/middleware/request_tracker.rb
index 527741344a4..ce000deeb7d 100644
--- a/lib/middleware/request_tracker.rb
+++ b/lib/middleware/request_tracker.rb
@@ -175,11 +175,11 @@ class Middleware::RequestTracker
       return result
     end
 
-    if block_crawler(request)
-      log_request = false
-      result = [403, { 'Content-Type' => 'text/plain' }, ['Crawler is not allowed']]
-      return result
-    end
+    # if block_crawler(request)
+    #   log_request = false
+    #   result = [403, { 'Content-Type' => 'text/plain' }, ["Crawler is not allowed."]]
+    #   return result
+    # end
 
     env["discourse.request_tracker"] = self
     MethodProfiler.start
diff --git a/spec/components/middleware/request_tracker_spec.rb b/spec/components/middleware/request_tracker_spec.rb
index d93e4085db8..69f5a0906c4 100644
--- a/spec/components/middleware/request_tracker_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/components/middleware/request_tracker_spec.rb
@@ -286,57 +286,4 @@ describe Middleware::RequestTracker do
     end
   end
 
-  context "crawler blocking" do
-    let :middleware do
-      app = lambda do |env|
-        [200, {}, ['OK']]
-      end
-
-      Middleware::RequestTracker.new(app)
-    end
-
-    def expect_success_response(status, _, response)
-      expect(status).to eq(200)
-      expect(response).to eq(['OK'])
-    end
-
-    def expect_blocked_response(status, _, response)
-      expect(status).to eq(403)
-      expect(response).to eq(['Crawler is not allowed'])
-    end
-
-    it "applies whitelisted_crawler_user_agents correctly" do
-      SiteSetting.whitelisted_crawler_user_agents = 'Googlebot'
-      expect_success_response(*middleware.call(env))
-      expect_blocked_response(*middleware.call(env('HTTP_USER_AGENT' => 'Twitterbot')))
-      expect_success_response(*middleware.call(env('HTTP_USER_AGENT' => 'Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)')))
-      expect_blocked_response(*middleware.call(env('HTTP_USER_AGENT' => 'DiscourseAPI Ruby Gem 0.19.0')))
-    end
-
-    it "applies blacklisted_crawler_user_agents correctly" do
-      SiteSetting.blacklisted_crawler_user_agents = 'Googlebot'
-      expect_success_response(*middleware.call(env))
-      expect_blocked_response(*middleware.call(env('HTTP_USER_AGENT' => 'Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)')))
-      expect_success_response(*middleware.call(env('HTTP_USER_AGENT' => 'Twitterbot')))
-      expect_success_response(*middleware.call(env('HTTP_USER_AGENT' => 'DiscourseAPI Ruby Gem 0.19.0')))
-    end
-
-    it "blocked crawlers shouldn't log page views" do
-      ApplicationRequest.clear_cache!
-      SiteSetting.blacklisted_crawler_user_agents = 'Googlebot'
-      expect {
-        middleware.call(env('HTTP_USER_AGENT' => 'Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)'))
-        ApplicationRequest.write_cache!
-      }.to_not change { ApplicationRequest.count }
-    end
-
-    it "blocks json requests" do
-      SiteSetting.blacklisted_crawler_user_agents = 'Googlebot'
-      expect_blocked_response(*middleware.call(env(
-        'HTTP_USER_AGENT' => 'Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)',
-        'HTTP_ACCEPT' => 'application/json'
-      )))
-    end
-  end
-
 end