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sreekanth850 • yesterday at 2:34 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

And you think all this web AI crawlers will respect robots.txt. That era is gone.


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Jskewel • yesterday at 7:00 PM

The big USA ones do, and it would be madness for them to do otherwise.

But that's meaningless because 99% of AI crawlers are "bad bots" which ignore robots.txt and use domestic IPs to circumvent blocks.

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