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techcrunch.com · United States · measured 8 Oct 2026

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

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 710 bytes. 12 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /
Sitemap: https://techcrunch.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://techcrunch.com/news-sitemap.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-json/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /*?customize_changeset_uuid=*

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

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