Infrastructure

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User-agent: *
Disallow: /pixel.png*
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /profile/
Disallow: /strpixel.png*
Disallow: /public/build/quill*
Disallow: /fetch/tag/*
Disallow: /comment-fetch/
Disallow: /comment-reply-fetch/
Disallow: /modules-fetch/
Disallow: /fetch/quick-rating-widgets/
Disallow: /tag/interaction-card/*
Disallow: /tag/search/db-home/
Disallow: /tag/search/listing-page/
Disallow: /mymodule/tag/
Disallow: /mymodule/vehicle-sub-model-year-tag/
Disallow: /mymodule/vehicle-sub-model-year-tag-trim/compare/
Disallow: /fetch/next/mural
Disallow: /fetch/next/mural/*
Disallow: /fetch/next/mural?*
Disallow: /author/*/page/

# Block AI content scrapers
User-agent: "008"
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-extended
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: HTTrack
User-agent: Nutch
User-agent: Offline Explorer
User-agent: Scrapy
User-agent: YouBot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /
User-agent: AmazonAdBot
Allow: /
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Sitemap: https://www.howtogeek.com/post_google_news.xml