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Meta is an exception. They intentionally ignore robots.txt rules.

(No second chances, I blocked their whole IP range.)



Everyone ignores robots.txt because every robots.txt blocks everyone.

I allow Google, Bing, Yahoo, Kagi, and Apple on my personal blog... who else do I need to allow? Claude, OpenAI, Alibaba, and perplexity can go to hell.



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