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Four in 10 sites block AI bots with robots.txt

calendar_today September 7, 2026 person Robert Andrews domain zyte

Nearly four in 10 of the world’s top sites are now closed to well-behaved AI crawlers. Here’s what operators actually do with robots.txt, and which AI agents they block or welcome.

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