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AlterNet

alternet.org · United States · measured 8 Oct 2026

Google Search
Allowed
Google-Extended
Blocked
OpenAI
Blocked
Anthropic
Allowed
Perplexity
Blocked
Meta
Allowed
Common Crawl
Blocked
ByteDance
Allowed
Apple
Allowed
Amazon
Allowed

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 470 bytes. 4 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /core/*
Disallow: /r/*
Disallow: /mnt/*
Allow: /r/kappa/api/*

User-agent: ias_crawler
Disallow: /
Sitemap: https://www.alternet.org/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.alternet.org/sitemap_video.xml
Sitemap: https://www.alternet.org/sitemap_sections.xml
Sitemap: https://www.alternet.org/sitemap_tags.xml

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

United States
63.2% block at least one AI crawler
Behind Cloudflare
No