Cloudflare Will Write Your Robots.txt, And It Has A Point via @sejournal, @slobo

<p>Cloudflare now lets all sites manage AI crawlers as Search, Agent, or Training, with Sept. 15 defaults that can block Googlebot for sites blocking training.</p> <p>The post <a

<p>Cloudflare's Disallow AI Training keeps mixed-use crawlers available for search. Google and Apple honor training opt-outs; Bing robots.txt support is pending.</p> <p>The post

<p>Robots.txt relies on bot compliance, while WAF, CDN, and server-level blocks enforce it. A breakdown of which layer stops AI crawlers for good.</p> <p>The post <a

<p>New data shows ChatGPT's page-fetching bot is reaching sites that have disallowed it, and OpenAI's own documentation explains why the file may not stop it.</p> <p>The post <a

<p>Microsoft Clarity's Bot Analytics dashboard now detects when bots request URLs your robots.txt disallows, with trends and filters by bot and operator.</p> <p>The post <a

<p>Google's John Mueller explains a robots.txt quirk that can cause Googlebot to ignore robots.txt rules.</p> <p>The post <a