Fix #3805: Block AI bots and crawlers via robots.txt#4144
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You can have multiple user-agents followed by disallow.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20294485/is-it-possible-to-list-multiple-user-agents-in-one-line
Fix mozilla#3805: Block AI bots and crawlers via robots.txt
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Thanks @flodolo! Updated the robots.txt to use multiple user-agents with a single Disallow. |
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@mathjazz done :) |
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Fixes #3805
Added a list of AI bots and crawlers to robots.txt to prevent them
from accessing Pontoon. The list is based on what @flodolo suggested
in the issue, along with ClaudeBot which was also mentioned.