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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

#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: /
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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