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JohnFen
on July 10, 2023
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Google to explore alternatives to robots.txt
I think robots.txt isn't suitable for this for the same reason it's not suitable for keeping other bots from crawling your site: adhering to what robots.txt says is optional, and plenty of bots opt to ignore it.
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