Now that we know AI bots will ignore robots.txt and churn residential IP addresses to scrape websites, does anyone know of a method to block them that doesn’t entail handing over your website to Cloudflare?
Now that we know AI bots will ignore robots.txt and churn residential IP addresses to scrape websites, does anyone know of a method to block them that doesn’t entail handing over your website to Cloudflare?
Hmm, I took an original list and added to it. You got a website I can check? If so I’ll happily remove. I don’t mind slow web crawlers at all.
if you have any recall on where the list came from that’s also useful to us. Here’s our Bot page: https://www.mojeek.com/bot.html and some external info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojeek
Didn’t have the link to hand. But a search turned this one up: https://reggiodigital.com/blog/nginx-rule-blocking-bad-bots/ it looks to be the same list, and you can see the ones I’ve added to the end of that list.
thanks a lot for providing this 🙏