Simon Willison’s Weblog

21st December 2021

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TIL Adding a robots.txt using Cloudflare workers — I got an unexpected traffic spike to https://russian-ira-facebook-ads.datasettes.com/ - which runs on Cloud Run - and decided to use `robots.txt` to block crawlers.

Posted 21st December 2021 at 11:07 pm

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