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by bilekas 617 days ago
> does not respect robots.txt research shows.

It would be nice then for the investigators to help people with the identifying markers for such crawlers. Apart from a mention of darkvisitors, which it seems is a paid service to "Block agents who try to ignore your robots.txt"

I'm not sure how much that could be trusted given their business model also.