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Everyone ignores robots.txt because every robots.txt blocks everyone.

I allow Google, Bing, Yahoo, Kagi, and Apple on my personal blog... who else do I need to allow? Claude, OpenAI, Alibaba, and perplexity can go to hell.

Think about incentives, what benefit does Anthropic obtain by going to hell?

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