Not sure if I totally trust that it will be effective but I did add a robots.txt file and robots meta tag to my website to tryyyyy to block bots crawling my website to feed AI models.

The blog I based my changes on: neil-clarke.com/block-the-bots
The changes I made: github.com/travissouthard/trav
#robotstxt #robotsdottxt #webdev #noai #ai

@travissouthard the meta tag approach needs to be accepted and standardised!

we've got an open letter to that effect: noml.info/

@Mojeek @travissouthard I think, AIBL (like DNSBL, etc) would be more effective. global IP ban for those who tries to steal data, not respecting robots.txt.
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@iron_bug some of those blacklists hold IP ranges hostage without any sane way of getting removed.

i run some rspamd installations and spam almost universally is removed by greylisting (temporarily declining a mail). the blacklists do almost nothing now in my experience.
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