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I mean the main reason is that robots.txt is pointless these days.

When it was introduced, the web was largely collaborative project within the academic realm. A system based on the honor system worked for the most part.

These days the web is adversarial through and through. A robots.txt file seems like an anachronistic, almost quaint museum piece, reminding us of what once was, while we stoop head first into tech feudalism.



In fact the problem of the "never ending September" has evolved into, "the never ending barrage of Septemberbots and AI vacuum bots".

The horrors of the 1990's internet is quaint by comparison to the society level problems we now have.


its not a request anymore, its often a warning not to go any farther, lest ye be zipbombed or tarpitted into wasting bandwidth and time.




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