TL;DR: You can’t fully block AI scrapers, but robots.txt, meta tags, and Cloudflare’s bot control help limit them. Cloudways users get built-in bot blocking via Imunify360 WAF. Not all website traffic is good traffic. While human visitors engage with your content, AI crawlers quietly scan your pages—often without your permission. These bots, like OpenAI’s GPTBot, […]
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