{
 "slug": "block-disputed",
 "title": "Block the crawlers with disputed robots compliance",
 "summary": "The ones repeatedly reported as ignoring robots.txt. Included for completeness — expect to enforce this at the edge instead.",
 "detail": "A robots.txt rule is a request. For the operators in this file the request is documented as unreliable or explicitly not applicable, so the honest use of this file is as a record of intent that sits alongside a real block by user-agent or by IP at your CDN.",
 "crawler_count": 3,
 "crawlers": [
  "bytespider",
  "perplexity-user",
  "tiktokspider"
 ],
 "robots_txt_url": "https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/robots/block-disputed.txt",
 "robots_txt": "# AI Crawler Index — policy: block-disputed\n# Block the crawlers with disputed robots compliance\n# The ones repeatedly reported as ignoring robots.txt. Included for completeness — expect to enforce this at the edge instead.\n# Generated 2026-09-01 from https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/policy/block-disputed.html\n# 3 crawlers named. Paste into robots.txt at your document root.\n\nUser-agent: Bytespider   # compliance disputed; enforce at the edge\nDisallow: /\n\nUser-agent: Perplexity-User   # operator states robots.txt does not apply; enforce at the edge\nDisallow: /\n\nUser-agent: TikTokSpider   # compliance disputed; enforce at the edge\nDisallow: /\n\nUser-agent: *\nAllow: /\n\nSitemap: https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/sitemap.xml\n",
 "generated": "2026-09-01"
}