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[-] CynicusRex@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago

#TL;DR:

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Omgilibot
Disallow: /
User-Agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /
User-Agent: Applebot
Disallow: /
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /
User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /
User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Omgilibot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Omgili
Disallow: /
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /
[-] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 months ago

Of course, nothing stops a bot from picking a user agent field that exactly matches a web browser.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

Nothing stops a bot from choosing to not read robots.txt

[-] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Indeed, as has already been said repeatedly in other comments.

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