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Omega8.cc: Your Site Already Said No

calendar_today September 1, 2026 domain drupal

AI traffic is not one thing, and a policy which treats it as one thing gets the answer wrong in both directions. Here the decision is written down, class by class: the crawlers which harvest sites to train models are turned away at the edge before a single line of Drupal or Backdrop runs, while AI search indexers, and the fetch a real person triggers by asking an assistant, stay open and rate-limited per vendor, not per address, because one prompt fans out across dozens of addresses. Every layer ships with the platform and runs on your own server; nothing is rented, and no rule lives somewhere

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