If you want to avoid using certain modules, you can blacklist them to prevent Ansible from loading them. To blacklist plugins, create a yaml configuration file. The default location for this file is :file:`/etc/ansible/plugin_filters.yml`, or you can select a different path for the blacklist file using the :ref:`PLUGIN_FILTERS_CFG` setting in the ``defaults`` section of your ansible.cfg. Here is an example blacklist file:
* A file version so that you can update the format while keeping backwards compatibility in the future. The present version should be the string, ``"1.0"``