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slate.com · United States · measured 8 Oct 2026

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

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 11,351 bytes. 2 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

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Disallow: /

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User-agent: getdomaindata
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User-agent: Google AdSense
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Disallow: /search
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /_
Disallow: /css
Disallow: /fonts
Disallow: /media
Disallow: /piano
Disallow: /static
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /_
Sitemap: https://slate.com/sitemaps/sitemap-index.xml

User-agent: AmazonAdBot
User-agent: Amazon-Advertising-ad-standards-bot
Allow: /

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