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		reaperducer 7 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Dat... Where did you get that date? On July 1, 2019, Google announced the proposal of the Robots Exclusion Protocol as an official standard under Internet Engineering Task Force.[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt

Dylan16807 6 hours ago [–]

That is not when they started recommending it. It would be nice if you acknowledged the rest of my comment, I even quoted from the [8] reference.

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