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The Atlantic

theatlantic.com · United States · 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
Blocked

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 3,722 bytes. 21 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

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Sitemap: https://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/sitemap.xml

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

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In context

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