Cynicus Rex@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months agoHow to block AI Crawler Bots using robots.txt filewww.cyberciti.bizexternal-linkmessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up1106arrow-down132
arrow-up174arrow-down1external-linkHow to block AI Crawler Bots using robots.txt filewww.cyberciti.bizCynicus Rex@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square62fedilink
minus-squareDigitalDilemma@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-26 months agoIn my experience, the AI bots are absolutely not honoring robots.txt - and there are literally hundreds of unique ones. Many of them aren’t even identifying themselves as AI bots, but faking human user-agents.
In my experience, the AI bots are absolutely not honoring robots.txt - and there are literally hundreds of unique ones. Many of them aren’t even identifying themselves as AI bots, but faking human user-agents.