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[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Not sure if that is effective at all. Why would a crawler check the robots.txt if it's programmed to ignore it anyways?

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 16 points 1 month ago

cause many crawlers seem to explicitly crawl "forbidden" sites

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Google and script kiddies copying code...

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

You could also place the same page as a hidden link on your home page.