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Comment by sofixa

8 days ago

This is literally the point of robots.txt. It was created to allow site owners to configure how and which parts of their website can be scraped by what bot, and all the "decent" ones (Google, Bing) respect it.

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sofixa

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bflesch  8 days ago

Spoiler: They don't.

  • edwinjm  8 days ago

    Google, Bing do

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