seirdy.one/static/robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /noindex/
Disallow: /misc/

# I opt out of online advertising so malware that injects ads on my site won't get paid.
# You should do the same. my ads.txt file contains a standard placeholder to forbid any
# compliant ad networks from paying for ad placement on my domain.
User-Agent: Adsbot
Disallow: /
Allow: /ads.txt
Allow: /app-ads.txt

# The next three are borrowed from https://www.videolan.org/robots.txt

# > This robot collects content from the Internet for the sole purpose of # helping educational institutions prevent plagiarism. [...] we compare student papers against the content we find on the Internet to see if we # can find similarities. (http://www.turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html)
#  --> fuck off.
User-Agent: TurnitinBot
Disallow: /

# > NameProtect engages in crawling activity in search of a wide range of brand and other intellectual property violations that may be of interest to our clients. (http://www.nameprotect.com/botinfo.html)
#  --> fuck off.
User-Agent: NPBot
Disallow: /

# iThenticate is a new service we have developed to combat the piracy of intellectual property and ensure the originality of written work for# publishers, non-profit agencies, corporations, and newspapers. (http://www.slysearch.com/)
#  --> fuck off.
User-Agent: SlySearch
Disallow: /

# BLEXBot assists internet marketers to get information on the link structure of sites and their interlinking on the web, to avoid any technical and possible legal issues and improve overall online experience. (http://webmeup-crawler.com/)
# --> fuck off.
User-Agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

# Providing Intellectual Property professionals with superior brand protection services by artfully merging the latest technology with expert analysis. (https://www.checkmarknetwork.com/spider.html/)
# "The Internet is just way to big to effectively police alone." (ACTUAL quote)
# --> fuck off.
User-agent: CheckMarkNetwork/1.0 (+https://www.checkmarknetwork.com/spider.html)
Disallow: /

# Stop trademark violations and affiliate non-compliance in paid search. Automatically monitor your partner and affiliates’ online marketing to protect yourself from harmful brand violations and regulatory risks. We regularly crawl websites on behalf of our clients to ensure content compliance with brand and regulatory guidelines. (https://www.brandverity.com/why-is-brandverity-visiting-me)
# --> fuck off.
User-agent: BrandVerity/1.0
Disallow: /

# Eat shit, OpenAI.
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

# Official way to opt-out of Google's generative AI training: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

# There isn't any public documentation for this AFAICT, but Reuters thinks this works so I might as well give it a shot.
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

# I'm not blocking CCBot for now, since it's also used for upstart/hobbyist search engines like Alexandria and for genuinely useful academic work I personally like. I'm hoping my embedded robots meta-tags and headers will cover gen-AI opt-outs instead.
# Omgilibot/Omgili is similar to CCBot, except it sells the scrape results. I'm not familiar enough to make a call here.

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