Hundreds of websites mistakenly blocking outdated bots, leaving new AI bots unblocked, due to not updating robots.txt files for constantly evolving AI crawler landscape.
Dark Visitors aids in updating robots.txt by tracking shifting web crawler and scraper landscape, with recent additions from Apple and Meta, highlighting the difficulty for website owners to manually keep up.
AI companies may illicitly crawl sites or bypass robots.txt, leading some websites to block all crawlers, potentially impacting search engines and internet archiving.
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