Publishers say no to AI scrapers, block bots at server level

Theregister | 09-12-2025 11:51am |

The open web is closing down for unwanted automated traffic A growing number of websites are taking steps to ban AI bot traffic so that their work isn't used as training data and their servers aren't overwhelmed by non-human users. However, some companies are ignoring the bans and scraping anyway....

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