AI agents often ignore robots.txt and can be manipulated via prompts—exposing real risks to content, privacy, and site security. DataDome gives you visibility and control over AI traffic.

Visual artists want to protect their work from non-consensual use by generative AI tools such as ChatGPT. But most of them do not have the technical know-how or control over the tools needed to do so.

Most artists don’t have access to the tools that would allow them to block AI crawlers. And if they do have access, artists don’t know how to use these tools. Visual artists want to protect their work ...

When the web was established several decades ago, it was built on a number of principles. Among them was a key, overarching standard dubbed “netiquette”: Do unto others as you’d want done unto you. It ...

AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, ...

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This is the technical implementation guide for the machine-readable files (MRF) in accordance with the Colorado Transparency in Coverage statute and rule. Carriers, plans, and PBMs are expected to ...

For years, websites included information about what kind of crawlers were not allowed on their site with a robots.txt file. Adobe, which wants to create a similar standard for images, has added a tool ...

Newly unredacted documents mostly shed light on C.I.A. sources and methods. The Justice Department is moving to disclose new details about surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. The National Archives ...

Google published a new Robots.txt refresher explaining how Robots.txt enables publishers and SEOs to control search engine crawlers and other bots (that obey Robots.txt). The documentation includes ...

Large language model AI companies have been aggressively scraping content off the web for years, and many of them are known for ignoring things like copyright or the robots.txt files used by sites to ...

The IRS has gradually rolled out a program to allow Americans to directly file taxes with the IRS. It's designed to make filing taxes simpler and easier. A group of Republicans want Donald Trump to ...