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Comment by cratermoon

10 months ago

AI scraper bots don't respect robots.txt

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jsheard  10 months ago

I think that's the point, you'd use robots.txt to direct Googlebot/Bingbot/etc away from countermeasures that could potentially mess up your SEO. If other bots ignore the signpost clearly saying not to enter the tarpit, that's their own stupid fault.

reverendsteveii  10 months ago

The ones that survive do

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