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Gizmodo

gizmodo.com · United States · measured 8 Oct 2026

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

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 1,223 bytes. 8 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: Omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://gizmodo.com/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://gizmodo.com/sitemap-news.xml
Sitemap: https://gizmodo.com/download/downloads.xml.gz

User-agent: *
Disallow: /download/*-thankyou$
Disallow: /download/ajax/
Disallow: /stats/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /ajax/
Disallow: /embed/
Disallow: /setbucket*
Disallow: /game/score/*
Disallow: /game/summary/*
Disallow: /gateway/*
Disallow: /showcase/*
Disallow: /search$
Disallow: /search?
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /wp/wp-admin/
Allow: /wp/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

User-agent: AmazonAdBot
Allow: /

User-agent: AI2Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FirecrawlAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PanguBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Webzio-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: HTTrack
Disallow: /

User-agent: Nutch
Disallow: /

User-agent: Scrapy
Disallow: /

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

United States
63.2% block at least one AI crawler
Behind Cloudflare
Yes