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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

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Reuters and Time started blocking all AI bots by default and created whitelists of approved bots, following the default disallow strategy of People and others (...