Cloudflare vs robots.txt: The Modern Defense Against AI Content Scraping
The robots.txt file is an outdated honor system, ineffective against modern AI web crawlers and malicious bots. For genuine content scraping protection, website owners must look beyond its severe robots.txt limitations. This article explores the Cloudflare vs robots.txt debate, showing how Cloudflare’s active security and new Content Signals offer the control that robots.txt only pretends […]