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sbnation.com · United States · Vox Media · measured 8 Oct 2026

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

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 5,650 bytes. 24 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

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History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

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In context

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