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This actually blocks a lot more than just AI crawlers. You shouldn’t use this without reviewing it in detail so that you understand what you are actually blocki
by JimDabell 1y ago
This actually blocks a lot more than just AI crawlers. You shouldn’t use this without reviewing it in detail so that you understand what you are actually blocking.
For instance, it includes ChatGPT-User. This is not a crawler. This is used when a ChatGPT user pastes a link in and asks ChatGPT about the contents of the page.
One of the entries is facebookexternalhit. When you share a link on Facebook, Threads, WhatsApp, etc., this is the user-agent Meta uses to fetch the OpenGraph metadata to display things like the title and thumbnail.
Skimming through the list, I see a bunch of things like this. Not every non-browser fetch is an AI crawler!