[ehhthing]

You say this like robots.txt doesn't exist.

[toofy]

it almost sounds like they’re saying the contents of robots.txt shouldn’t matter… because google exists? or something?

implying “robots.txt explicitly says i can’t scrape their site, well i want that data, so im directing my bot to take it anyway.”

[sitzkrieg]

so many things flat out ignore it in 2026 let's be real