Articles about "block AI bots"

Robots.txt is a request — Cloudflare is enforcement. Block AI scrapers with the free one-click toggle, Bot Fight Mode, WAF rules, and rate limiting. 2026 guide.

Should you block PerplexityBot? The nuanced 2026 answer: allow it for cited referral traffic — Perplexity says it doesn't train models — unless you need a full opt-out from AI search.

Learn how to block Mistral AI crawlers (MistralAI-User) with robots.txt in 2026 — exact code, the three Mistral tokens, and when blocking helps or hurts.