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This may surprise you, but some bots don't respect robots.txt

• austin-cheney 2y ago
  No, but you can identify and block them by other means, such as redirecting bots to an empty page on your web server or blocking them from your router.
  • TZubiri 2y ago
    but how do you identify them?
    • knowaveragejoe 2y ago
      There's various tricks that can help narrow the criteria, but one that seems particularly good is to put paths no human user would ever find or traverse in robots.txt disallow. Ban anything that visits that path.