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Yes, provided the crawlers identify themselves and your application/hosting supports doing so.
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## What can we do if a bot doesn't respect `robots.txt`?
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That depends on your stack.
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- Nginx
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- [Blocking Bots with Nginx](https://rknight.me/blog/blocking-bots-with-nginx/) by Robb Knight
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- [Blocking AI web crawlers](https://underlap.org/blocking-ai-web-crawlers) by Glyn Normington
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- Apache httpd
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- [Blockin' bots.](https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/blockin-bots/) by Ethan Marcotte
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- [Blocking Bots With 11ty And Apache](https://flamedfury.com/posts/blocking-bots-with-11ty-and-apache/) by fLaMEd fury
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> [!TIP]
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> The snippets in these articles all use `mod_rewrite`, which [should be considered a last resort](https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/rewrite/avoid.html). A good alternative that's less resource-intensive is `mod_setenvif`; see [httpd docs](https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/rewrite/access.html#blocking-of-robots) for an example. You should also consider [setting this up in `httpd.conf` instead of `.htaccess`](https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/howto/htaccess.html#when) if it's available to you.
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- Netlify
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- [Blockin' bots on Netlify](https://www.jeremiak.com/blog/block-bots-netlify-edge-functions/) by Jeremia Kimelman
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- Cloudflare
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- [I’m blocking AI crawlers](https://roelant.net/en/2024/im-blocking-ai-crawlers-part-2/) by Roelant
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## Why should we block these crawlers?
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They're extractive, confer no benefit to the creators of data they're ingesting and also have wide-ranging negative externalities.
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