Reuters and Time adopt bot-blocking whitelists to rein in AI crawlers

Reuters and Time adopt bot-blocking whitelists to rein in AI crawlers

Reuters and Time adopt a ‘block-all’ AI bot strategy, part of a broader publisher move toward whitelist-only access.

More News Sites Default To Blocking AI Crawlers

Reuters and Time now block AI bots by default, allowing only approved crawlers through allowlists, as more publishers add friction to AI content scraping. The post More News Sites Default To Blocking AI Crawlers appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Reuters and Time started blocking all AI bots by default and created whitelists of approved bots, following the default disallow strategy of People and others (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)

Sara Guaglione / Digiday: Reuters and Time started blocking all AI bots by default and created whitelists of approved bots, following the default disallow strategy of People and others  —  Reuters and Time are taking a new approach to bot blocking.  Both publishers have recently started blocking all AI bots by default …