I don't bother with robots.txt nowadays. I run nginx and I just have fun with the bots:
if ($http_user_agent ~ (GPTBot|Google-Extended|CCBot|FacebookBot|cohere-ai|PerplexityBot|anthropic-ai|ClaudeBot|) ) {
return 403 "Get off my lawn";
}
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I don't bother with robots.txt nowadays. I run nginx and I just have fun with the bots:
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@mookie@mookiesplace.com @leah@chaos.social I also mess with bots on my site, ai crawlers get to see a very inaccurate news site. |
@mookie @leah I need to do this!