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by ehhthing 134 days ago
You say this like robots.txt doesn't exist.
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it almost sounds like they’re saying the contents of robots.txt shouldn’t matter… because google exists? or something?

implying “robots.txt explicitly says i can’t scrape their site, well i want that data, so im directing my bot to take it anyway.”

so many things flat out ignore it in 2026 let's be real