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I have observed the same from Meta's crawler. User-agent: * Disallow: / on e.g. our preproduction site, Meta is the only big-tech crawler that accesses it
by Symbiote 4mo ago
I have observed the same from Meta's crawler.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
on e.g. our preproduction site, Meta is the only big-tech crawler that accesses it, at least with an honest user agent. (Meta also accesses disallowed paths on the production site.)
- reconnecting 4mo agoI'm not defending meta here, but I should mention that meta also uses crawlers to visit pages when someone send a link through their services. User-agent: * can be ignored by bots, but if they ignore the disallow rule for their own UA, they can easily be blocked by network AS.