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Re:Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable by Arnt on Saturday January 18, 2025 @11:15AM (#42749362)
I've heard that too. Your posting inspired me to check. I see daily accesses from claudebot and gtpbot to /robots.txt on two sites. Also from something called amazonbot, which may be another AI bot?
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Re:Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable by osdotsystem on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @05:27AM (#42778463)
Me i dropped a bunch of dont allows for different bots, as many as i could find.
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Re:Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable by Arnt on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @06:18AM (#42778881)
I'm curious — if that's your attitude, why not all bots? You can say "User-Agent: foo\nDisallow:\n\nUser-Agent: *\nDisallow: /" to allow only named bots and reject them by default.
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