Reuters and Time adopt bot-blocking whitelists to rein in AI crawlers (opens in new tab)

Covered by 4 sources including PPC Land, Search Engine Journal

Reuters and Time adopt a ‘block-all’ AI bot strategy, part of a broader publisher move toward whitelist-only access.

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