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by aqfamnzc 22 days ago
Yeah, I feel like unless you run a site large enough for google monkeys to write a special case for your site specifically, why not just password protect the entire site but put the password on the login page? Or any other rudimentary captcha I suppose - like the old days.

Doesn't keep out anyone even mildly interested in your site specifically, including scrapers, but at least it blocks googlebot etc.

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Funny edge case when you can’t read the password because you need it for access