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Comment by trebor

Upvoted because we’re seeing the same behavior from all AI and Seo bots. They’re BARELY respecting Robots.txt, and hard to block. And when they crawl, they spam and drive up load so high they crash many servers for our clients.

If AI crawlers want access they can either behave, or pay. The consequence will almost universal blocks otherwise!

parent trebor 1 year ago

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